mikeb@inset.UUCP (Mike Banahan) (10/03/85)
------------------ This group has been created after requesting comments from net.news.group and believes that it has followed the procedures required. At a meeting of the EUUG in Copenhagen in September, a unanimous vote of the Internationalisation working party requested that such a group should be established, to serve as a forum for discussion of the issues involved in tailoring UNIX and other operating systems to provide support for multiple character set working natural language interaction correct handling of cultural dependencies and anything else needed for a system to be able to work in a variety of natural languages. The discussions appropriate to this area are currently ill-coordinated. A lot of work is being done and not being aired, and for a consensus to be arrived at, it is important that the topics are discussed widely. There are already working parties established, many communicating privately by post. The general population is denied the chance to see the work being done and to become involved. It is hoped that this newsgroup will help to rectify that situation. As I currently chair both the /usr/group/uk and the EUUG working parties on this subject, I will be glad to receive comments on the work of those groups. -- Mike Banahan, Technical Director, The Instruction Set Ltd. mcvax!ukc!inset!mikeb
pete@ecrcvax.UUCP (Pete Delaney) (10/04/85)
Perhaps we could start with the issue of character sets. It seems that ATT is intent on 7-bit ASCII whereas from my discussions with Eric Brunner, a major contributer to XOPEN, it sounds like 8-bit ascii if far more reasonable. If 7 bit ASCII is used utilities must know how to deal with double byte character sequences. If these excaped characters are maped to 8 bit ACSII the utilities need not be changed. -- -------------------------------------------- Pete Delaney - Rocky Mnt. Unix Consultant Phone: (49) 89 92699-139 European Computer-Industry Research Center UUCP: mcvax!unido!ecrcvax!pete ArabellaStrasse 17 UUCP Domain: pete@ecrcvax.UUCP D-8000 Muenchen 81, West Germany X25: (262)-45890040262 CSNET:pete%ecrcvax.UUCP@Germany.CSNET Login: <to be provided?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------