ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 RIN N074
				 1992-09-01


PRELIMINARY Meeting notice and draft agenda WG15RIN meeting number 7.
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 RIN: POSIX Rapporteur Group on Internationalization

	Date:	      Monday   26 Oct 1992 09:00 - 17:00
		      Tuesday  27 Oct 1992 09:00 - 12:00

	Location:     X/Open Company Ltd
		      Apex Plaza, Forbury Rd
		      Reading, UK

	Host Contact: Anna Tomasello (a.tomasello@xopen.co.uk)
		      Tel: +44 734 508311  FAX: +44 734 500110

RIN Email list:       SC22WG15RIN@dkuug.dk

1. Opening of meeting.

   1.1 Selection of Chair, Secretary & Drafting Committee
   1.2 Introductions and Roll for call of Technical Experts
   1.3 Temporary document number assignment
   1.4 Adaption of Agenda and allocation of documents on Agenda
   1.5 Approval of minutes

2. Action Item Reports

3. Business

   3.1 I18N in POSIX.2b
   3.1.1   extended identifiers (KS)
   3.1.2   localedef is_wctype()
   3.1.3   localedef user-specified collation weight names
   3.1.4   localedef "substitute"
   3.1.5   localedef "replace-after"
   3.1.6   removal of NUL special handling
   3.1.7   full support for state-dependent charsets
   3.1.8   width spec for characters
   3.1.9   charmap-based charset conversion in tr
   3.1.10  field width spec for "date"
   3.1.11  "file" user-specified recognition algorithm
   3.1.12  "pax" extended character set support
   3.1.13  uuencode BASE64 encoding
   3.1.14  C MSE widechar support
   3.1.15  Invariant ISO 646 support (KS)

   3.2 National profiles and locales
       Guideline for National Profiles (NS)
       Guideline for national locales (KS)
       Naming scheme for locales (national/application) (KS)
       Japanese National Profile and locale (NS)
       Canadian National locale (PD)
       Coordination of national locales
	  The Japanese, Danish and Canadian locales
	  all use different mechanisms to specify the locale.
	  Can we minimize the differences and reuse eachothers work?
   3.3 Liaison paper to SGFS on national profiles
       We need to further discuss the concept of national profiles
       and produce a suitable paper to SGFS.
   3.4 Response to JTC1 N1074 resolution 18 j
       Jim Isaak has asked RIN to review some SC22 documents,
       to verify that WG15's May 1992 response is adequate.
       We need to have a resolution for WG15 on this matter.
       N075, N076, N077, N078, N071
   3.5 10646 issues (RB)
       Ralph has promised a paper on this, should be available
       in due time before the meeting.
       AT&T Bell Labs Plan 9 usage of 10646
       status of 10646.
       SC22 character ad hoc group meeting, April 1993?
       N079
   3.6 ISO DIS 9945-2 issues



4. Liaison reports

   4.1 Report on I18N IEEE 1003.x status (RB)
   4.2 Liaison reports: SC22, WG20, WG14, WG21 (KS)
   4.3 UniForum / X/Open JIG (RB)
   4.4 X/Open I18N (RB)
   4.5 Nordic Culture (KS)
   4.6 Other I18N activity


5. Review/approval of Resolutions and Action Items

   5.1 Recommendations for WG15

6. Closing Procedures

   6.1 Future meeting considerations -- request for invitations
   6.2 Permanent Document number assignment
   6.3 Review of Action items
   6.4 Thanks to host