From lrajchel@ANSI.org Mon Sep 25 17:48:38 2000 Received: from email1.ansi.org (mail.ansi.org [165.254.114.6]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA52886; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:48:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lrajchel@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:47:47 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2151730@email1.ansi.org> From: Lisa Rajchel To: "'sc22info@dkuug.dk'" Cc: "'Simonsen, Keld'" Subject: SC 22 N 3180 - Report of the Breakout Session Held During the Se ptember 2000 SC 22 Plenary Meeting in Nara, Japan on Extended Character S ets in Identifiers Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 11:47:39 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) _____________________beginning of title page ______________ ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3180 TITLE: Report of the Breakout Session Held During the September 2000 SC 22 Plenary Meeting in Nara, Japan on Extended Character Sets in Identifiers DATE ASSIGNED: 2000-09-25 SOURCE: J. Reid, Chair of the Breakout Session BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Other (Defined) PROJECT NUMBER: STATUS: This document is circulated for information. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI to SC22 Member Bodies DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: text CROSS REFERENCE: DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Lisa Rajchel ANSI 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4932 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: lrajchel@ansi.org _____________________end of title page _________________________ Breakout session on extended character sets in identifiers Chair: John Reid Ms. Bennett sought guidance from WG20 participants and SC22 conveners on upper/lower-case folding and character equivalence issues related to extended identifiers in COBOL. It was determined that the specific issues identified were not problems because the problematic characters were either not included in TR 10176 or were handled appropriately in the upper/lower case mappings in TR 14652. This facility is part of the C standard, but is not widely implemented. There is no requirement that languages provide such a facility. ----------------------------------------------------------- Breakout session on ISO 15435, the API standard Chair: John Reid WG20 has decided that the API standard should be cast in terms of C. It became apparent that no consensus existed among those present on the utility of providing the API standard at this time. Straw votes were as follows: Cease Continue Undecided/Abstain Convenors 1 2 3 Individuals 5 6 4 Countries 5 4 2