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Subject: N724: WG20 liaison report


                                    ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 N724


Title: WG20 liaison report 

Date: 1997-05-18

Source: WG15 liaison to WG20, Keld Simonsen

Action: for information

This is an update on what is going on in WG20 - internationalization,
of relevance to WG15. Please refer to the WG20 web page, 
http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG20/ for further information.

1. The TR "Framework for Internationalization" is in the process of
being published as a TR by ITTF. This is essentially building on
the C and POSIX models on i18n.

2. The TR "Guidelines for the design of programming languages"
DTR 10176 is out for DTR ballot ending next month. This has a
number of new recommendations on 10646 and i18n support.

3. The standard on international string ordering and comparison,
14651 is scheduled for FCD ballot October 1997. It uses enhanced
POSIX locale syntax.

4. The standard on cultural data specification, 14652 is scheduled for
CD registration and CD ballot June 1997. This specifies enhanced POSIX
locale and charmap formats, and a standard locale covering IS 10646.

5. WG20 has got a new project 15435 on i18n APIs, giving access to
the information encoded with IS 14652.

6. WG20 has created a home page as noted above, and will according
to the new JTC1 document distribution policy publish a number of
documents on the web, including distribution of Committee Draft
level documents.