Interoperable Across Locales —
Live code files support storing and displaying characters across all
locales, facilitating sharing files internationally. For example, if you
create a live script with a Japanese locale setting, and open the live
script with a Russian locale setting, the characters in the live script
display correctly.
Extensible — Live code files can
be extended through the ECMA-376 format, which supports the range of
formatting options offered by Microsoft Word. The ECMA-376 format also
accommodates arbitrary name-value pairs, should there be a need to extend
the format beyond what the standard offers.
Forward Compatible — Future
versions of live code files are compatible with previous versions of
MATLAB by implementing the ECMA-376 standard’s forward compatibility
strategy.
Backward Compatible — Future
versions of MATLAB can support live code files created by a previous version of
MATLAB.