mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan) (03/09/86)
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT Be it known that in conjunction with the IEEE P1003 standards committee meeting, being held in Florence week ending 18th of April, and the EUUG conference held in the same place the following week, a meeting of the Internationalisation committee will also occur. This is scheduled to be held at the same place as the EUUG conference, on Monday 21st April. The goal for this meeting is for a joint set of high level objectives to be agreed between the US user group and the combined EUUG /usr/group/uk committees. A major agenda item will be the discussion of the `White Paper' produced by the /usr/group committee, which contains the following list of topics and areas of concern: Announcement Mechanisms Concurrent Code Sets Size of Codes Collating Sequences Role of ASCII Redefinition of ASCII Bytes Character Classification Addressing of Variable Length Byte Streams Compiler Technology Regular Expressions Directionality (e.g. Hebrew / English) Escape Sequences Existing Standards Performance Packaging of Different Language Versions of Unix I currently have a copy of a draft of the White Paper which will be distributed to signed up members of the European Working Party, for consideration in advance of the meeting. Anyone who has not already arranged for hotel accomodation in Florence may be able to resolve something by calling the European UNIX System User Group Headquarters: +44-763-73039 -- Mike Banahan, Technical Director, The Instruction Set Ltd. mcvax!ukc!inset!mikeb