keld@diku.uucp (Keld J|rn Simonsen) (03/22/85)
On the Annual General Assembly of DKUUG - "Danish UNIX systems
User Group" gathered at University of Copenhagen, 18th Nov 1984,
a Working Group on National Adaptions of UNIX was formed.
This group was recognized as an EUUG - "European UNIX systems
User Group" - Working Group on its Executive board meeting
14th Jan 1985.
At present it has the following members:
Keld Simonsen University of Copenhagen diku!keld
Kim Biel-Nielsen Metric A/S (Zilog) diku!kontiki!kbn
Peter Mikkelsen NCR Softw. Eng. Copenhagen diku!ncrsecp!mik
The group is open and hereby seeks interested parties to join or
give information to the group. We intend to hold a meeting
during the EUUG conference in Paris 1st - 3rd April 1985.
The Working Group of National Adaptions of UNIX has recognized
problems in national use in the following areas:
1. Problems in national character sets in connection with:
sh/csh, C, n/troff, applications
2. Problems due to national languages:
Error messages, spell, word partitioning, sorting
3. Dates, timezones.
4. Pluralis.
5. Numerical syntax.
6. Paper formats.
7. Currency symbols.
The Working Group intends to obtain the following results:
1. Collecting of information and contacts on the subject.
2. Awareness of the problems in user groups, newsletters
and nets, software producers , hardware producers incl.
UEL and AT&T.
3. Recommendations on what to do.
Keld Simonsen, mcvax!diku!keld