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- The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX standard for UNIX supports non-Roman
- character sets and non-western concepts of calendars and
- 'summer time.' This is integral to the 1003 standards effort.
- I know of no separate effort to create an "international UNIX"
- outside of the IEEE POSIX effort which is destined to become an
- ISO standard. The other POSIX committees are also trying to pay
- attention to international concerns.
-
- The X/OPEN Consortium in Europe have developed an _X/OPEN Portability
- Guide_ (which had much input into POSIX) and X/OPEN standards,
- which mostly have a European orientation. X/OPEN is working
- closely with the IEEE on POSIX.
-
- The new standard for C includes support for 16 bit characters and
- other international considerations. This is also destined to become
- an ISO standard.
-
- The ISO has standardised 8-bit character sets for Romanised languages
- (the ISO 8859 series), and the Japanese standards group has defined
- standards for the representation of both Kanji and Kana ( JIS C6220
- and JIS C6226 as I recall). I'm not sure if the Japanese standards
- have or will go to the ISO.
-
- There is an effort underway to devise a coding standard for Chinese
- characters as well. Reportedly this group includes representatives
- from all areas where Chinese is commonly used (PRC, Taiwan, HK, Singapore).
- My understanding is that this group is working towards a standard to
- be submitted to the ISO as well.
-
- This is mostly from memory, so there might be a few inadvertant errors
- here. I'm sure someone will post a correction if I made a mistake.
-
- These are not necessarily my employer's views.
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