From keld@dkuug.dk Fri May 1 01:20:44 1998 Received: from (ra.dkuug.dk [193.88.44.193]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA18922 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 01:20:42 +0200 Message-ID: <354915A6.25E3@dkuug.dk> Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 01:21:58 +0100 From: Keld Simonsen Organization: DKUUG X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 [da] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sc22wg15 Subject: wg20 liaison Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="9804WG20.TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="9804WG20.TXT" ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 E Title: WG20 liaison report Date: 1998-04-23 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 still 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" is in the process of being published by ITTF. 3. The standard on international string ordering and comparison, 14651 is out for FCD ballot ending 1998-04-30. It uses enhanced locale syntax. 4. The standard on cultural data specification, 14652 is out for FCD ballot ending 1998-06-04. This specifies enhanced locale and charmap formats, and a standard locale covering IS 10646. 5. A first draft has been prepared on the new project 15435 on i18n APIs, which gives 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 Committee Draft level documents.