ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 N469
						 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15RIN N125
								     1994-05-10

Title:	Overview of WG15 collection of POSIX Profiles, Locales and Charmaps

Source:	WG15 RIN lead rapoprteur, Keld Simonsen

Action:	for information

Agenda:	WG15 RIN 9405 3.2.3

References:	response to WG15 AI 9310-38



Introduction

WG15 RIN has been collecting POSIX internationalization relevant data, in the form of
POSIX National Profiles, POSIX Locales and POSIX Charmaps, since 1990.

To date 41 POSIX locales have been collected, originating from a number of ISO/IEC
member bodies, and with a number of privately submitted locales.

The locales originating from offical standards bodies includes submissions from the
national standards instuitutes of the following countries:  Austria, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Iceland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden.

The privately submitted locales come mainly from one source, Keld Simonsen, who is a
WG15 member and also appointed editor of the CEN cultural elements registry standard
and has as a CEN/TC304/WG2 action item to collect locale information form CEN
members and associated members.  These locales cover CEN member and associated
member countries (most of Europe) and a few other countries.  Also a Japanese locale has
been collected from Japanese industry sources.

1 National profile has been collected from the Japanese member body.

Aboutr 150 Charmaps have been collected from Inter-Nordic Standardisation (INSTA)
projects on character set conversion and cultural elements, managed by Danish Stan-
dards Association.

All the information is available electronically by ftp and email from the site dkuug.dk - in
the directory i18n, and this is described both in the ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 and ISO/IEC
9945-2:1993 standards.