ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 N747


Title: WG20 liaison report

Date: 1997-10-20

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 has ended DTR balloting and a disposition of
comments is being prepared. 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 out
for CD registration and CD ballot ending in November. This
specifies enhanced POSIX 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.