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- The following workshop is organized by the Unicode Consortium.
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- UNICODE / ISO 10646
- IMPLEMENTERS WORKSHOP #4
- December 3 & 4 1992
- Sulzbach (Taunus) Germany
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- This is an announcement for the upcoming fourth workshop in a series of
- workshops on implementing the Unicode Standard and sponsored by the
- Unicode Consortium. This is the first time the workshop is being
- offered in Europe. Should you not be able to attend yourself, please
- pass this notice on to somebody else who might be interested in
- attending this workshop.
-
- Unicode:
- Unicode is an international character encoding standard that
- encompasses all the world's national scripts in a 16-bit code space.
- Unicode is a profile of the International Standard ISO 10646.
- Supported by most major computer and software vendors, Unicode greatly
- facilitates the development of internationally accepted software. All
- currently used character sets can be transferred to Unicode.
-
- Target Audience:
- Software developers, technical writers, managers or engineers
- developing or considering development of software for the
- international market.
-
- Date and Time:
- December 3 and 4, 1992, 9am - 5pm
-
- Location:
- The workshop will be held at the Holiday Inn in the German town of
- Sulzbach (Taunus).
-
- Agenda:
- December 3 will feature a full day, professionally developed,
- lecture course covering the Goals and Architecture of the Unicode
- Standard. It will address the problems posed by support for writing
- systems worldwide and how Unicode's design enables their solution.
- In addition, the course will explore several implementation strategies
- for Unicode and illustrate them with specific examples. December 4
- will feature invited papers on implementation aspects of Unicode and
- its relation to other standards. These seminar-style talks will cover
- specific, practical problems and point out solutions, as well as
- provide case studies and demonstrations of Unicode implementations
- underway.
-
- Speakers:
-
- Introductory Course
- Glenn Adams,
- Metis Technology, Inc. & The Institute for Advanced
- Professional Studies
-
- Keynote Address
- Gvtz H. Siebrecht
- General Manager
- Unisys Deutschland GmbH
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- Unicode and 10646
- Isai Scheinberg
- IBM Canada
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- Program Migration to Unicode
- Alan Barrett
- Lotus Development Ireland
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- Non-Spacing Marks
- Mark Davis
- Taligent, Inc.
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- Operating System Support (Windows NT)
- Michel Suignard
- Microsoft Europe
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- Codeset Conversions
- Lloyd Honomichl
- Novell, Inc.
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- Unicode In the XPG/Posix Model
- Gary Miller
- IBM Corporation
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- Collating Unicode Data
- Alain La Bonte
- Ministry of Communications, Quebec
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- Unicode Support in the Application Development Tool Kit
- Tuoc Vinh Luong
- Borland International
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- Internationalization in Windows Past and Future
- Bill Hall
- Novell, Inc.
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- Unicode and Print Servers
- Tadao Yamasaki
- IBM Corporation/Pennant
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- Unicode/UCS: What does it mean for the European environment?
- J|rgen Bettels
- Digital Switzerland
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- Practical Experience with Unicode Bidi Algorithms
- Alex Morcos
- Microsoft Corporation
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- Unicode and Network Internationalization
- Wayne Taylor
- Novell, Inc.
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- Proceedings:
- A complete set of notes will be provided for the course at no extra
- charge.
-
- Hotel:
- The workshop will be held at the Holiday Inn, Sulzbach (Taunus),
- Germany. The conference rate for a single room is DM 165 per night
- which includes breakfast. Lunch and dinner on December 3, and lunch
- on December 4 are included in the conference registration fee. Room
- arrangements should be made directly with the hotel, requesting the
- Unicode Workshop rate.
-
- Reservations +49-6196-763810
- Fax +49-6196-72996
-
- Registration:
- To register, please complete the registration form to the right
- and send together with a check, or credit card information, to
- either of the locations below.
-
- Cancellations must be received by November 27, 1992 and will
- carry a DM 50 (US$37) cancellation fee.
-
- Contacts:
- European Contact:
- Unicode Implementer's Workshop
- c/o Unisys Deutschland GmbH
- Frau Helga Mifka/ML
- Postfach 1110
- D-6231 Sulzbach (Taunus)
- Germany
- Phone: +49-6196-991259
- Fax: +49-6196-991860
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- U.S./Canada Contact:
- Unicode Implementer's Workshop
- Classic Consulting, International
- 2249 LeClair Drive
- Coquitlam, British Columbia
- V3K 6P6 Canada
- Phone: 604-931-7600
- Fax: 604-937-5898
- E-mail: 72630.107@compuserve.com
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- Registration form:
-
- Name: ________________________________________
-
- Company: _____________________________________
-
- Address: _____________________________________
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- City: ________________________________________
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- Country: _____________________________________
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- Postal Code: _________________________________
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- Phone: _______________________________________
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- Fax: _________________________________________
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- Non Member:
- DM 550______ US$370______
-
- Unicode Member:
- DM 450______ US$300______
-
- __ Check Enclosed __ AMEX __ Visa __ MC
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- Card#: ________________________ Exp Date:_____
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- Signature: ___________________________________
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- Make checks payable to Unicode, Inc.
- Employees of Unicode Full and Associate Members are
- eligible for the member discount.
-
- Cancellations must be received by November 27,
- 1992 and will carry a cancellation charge of
- DM 50 (US$37).
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