From keld@dkuug.dk Sat Nov 9 16:56:05 1991 Received: by dkuug.dk (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA10609; Sat, 9 Nov 91 16:56:05 +0100 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 91 16:56:05 +0100 From: Keld J|rn Simonsen Message-Id: <9111091556.AA10609@dkuug.dk> To: i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: RIN locale collection rules - for discussion X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Title: Operational rules for the WG15RIN POSIX locales collection Source: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15RIN Date: 1991-11-09 Status: Discussion paper for Review and Comment The following operational rules specify the procedure that ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15RIN (WG15RIN) shall undertake in collecting POSIX locales. 1. The locales are collected in source form. 2. The format of the locale sources shall be conformant to the latest version of ISO/IEC 9945-2, currently 2nd CD (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 N1063). 3. The locale must define all standard categories - for example by copying categories of a standard locale. 3. The sources shall be encoded in ISO/IEC 646:1991 International Reference Version coded character set. For enhanced portability it is recommended to use only the invariant part of ISO/IEC 646:1991, which contains 83 graphical characters. Comments should be primarily in the English language, so they can be widely understood. 4. The locales shall be sent to the collection point: WG15RIN POSIX locales collection C/o Danish UNIX-system User Group Kabbelejevej 27 B DK-2700 Broenshoej Danmark Fax: +45 31 60 66 49 Email: wg15rin-collect@dkuug.dk 5. The sources must be delivered electronically, either via electronic mail to the above mentioned email address, or on a DOS diskette to the above postal address. 6. A written application releasing copyrights of the contributed sources underwritten by authorized personel on behalf of the contributing organisation must be sent to the above mentioned address or fax number. Any organisation, including ISO/IEC national member bodies and vendor organisations etc. may contribute. 7. The written application must contain the following information: 1. Organisation name 2. Organisation postal address 3. Name of contact person 4. Email address of contact person 5. Fax number for contact person, in international format. 6. Short name for organisation, used in locale name 7. Natural language, as two-letter form of ISO 639 8. Territory, as two-letter form of ISO 3166 9. if not for general use an intended user audience , e.g. librarians 10. if for use of a special application, short name of application 11. Version number of the locale. If any of the above information is non-existant, it must be stated in each case. The information in items 6 to 11 is used in the naming of the locale and may contain the characters uppercase and lowercase forms of ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ and the special characters: !"%&'()*+-.0123456789:<>_ . Case is not significant in the name. There is no official printed form to be filled out. 8. Using the information from the application item 6 to 11, the name of the locale will be: 6;7,8,9,10;11 where 9 and 10 and unnessecary commas may be omitted. 9. Locale sources must be specified in a coded character set independent way, using whenever possible symbolic names for characters specified in ISO 9945-2 (currently 2nd CD) Annex F. 10. For each character not specified in Annex F of POSIX.2, the following information must be given electronically: 1. short symbolic character name in invariant ISO/IEC 646:1991. 2. verbal description 3. reference to dictionaries or other sources 4. languages for which it is used (ISO 639 2-letter form) 5. translitteration into invariant ISO/IEC 646:1991. 6. possibly other characteristics such as radical/stroke 7. possibly an English meaning of the character 8. possibly a graphic representation In addition, a POSIX charmap for each coded character set using these characters and suggsted charmap name must be provided electronically. Conditions mentioned for locales in this specification shall also hold true for such charmaps. 11. The locales will be available electronically via email and anonymous FTP and possibly other means.