From keld@dkuug.dk Sat Sep 28 23:50:10 1991
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From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
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To: dominic@british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk, wg15-uk@xopen.co.uk,
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Subject: Re: (wg15rin 146) request for "ident" specification part in LC_CTYPE
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> Keld Simonsen writes:
> > Danish Standards would like to have support for [extended character
>   sets in identifiers] in POSIX.2
> > locales, and this should also be reflected in the "small" programming
> > languages defined in POSIX, so that characters belonging to the
> > "ident" class would be allowed in identifiers in these "small"
> > programming languages (sh, awk etc.). 
> 
> My view is that it is far too late in the ballot cycle of 1003.2 to
> suggest such a change, and that to insist on it now would delay 1003.2,
> and hence further delay 9945-2.  On balance, I consider it considerably
> more important to publish 9945-2 in a timely manner than to delay it in
> order to incorporate further changes.

I think it is very unfair that people are now trying to stop
ISO ballotting procedures. DS have not had a chance to officially
ballot on this ISO subproject since draft 9. 
Something has gone wrong with the IEEE and ISO syncronisation plan,
if people are trying to beat up DS to keep quiet on this one.
And anyway this is also liaison requirements from other ISO WGs.

An formally these people (which at least include Donn and Dominic)
cannot do it. So should DS shut up while all other national
member bodies come and give their ballots?

Keld