From PIRARD@vm1.ulg.ac.be Wed Oct 12 13:24:06 1994 Received: from vm1.ulg.ac.be by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA01400 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 12 Oct 1994 13:17:46 +0100 Message-Id: <199410121217.AA01400@dkuug.dk> Received: from BLIULG11 by vm1.ulg.ac.be (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5266; Wed, 12 Oct 94 13:16:22 +0200 Received: from BLIULG11 (PIRARD) by BLIULG11 (Mailer R2.10 ptf000) with BSMTP id 0400; Wed, 12 Oct 94 13:16:22 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 12:24:06 +0100 From: Andre' PIRARD Organization: University of Liege (Belgium), SEGI (Computing Center) Subject: Re: UCS Support "in the pipeline" To: Alain La Bonte' , Multi-byte Code Issues Cc: i18n@dkuug.dk, iso10646@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu, bealle@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com, ca-jtc1-sc2@microstar.ca, vm1.ulaval.carob@unb.ca In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 11 Oct 1994 14:57:00 -0500 from X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 On Tue, 11 Oct 1994 14:57:00 -0500 you said: >To complement the information I gave concerning AIX 4.1 UCS enabling on the >ISO10646 list, IBM announced this afternoon (statement of direction) at the >G.U.I.D.E. SHARE europe joint conference in Vienna: > >Direct support of UCS-2 in OS/2 (next release after the one now in beta test), >with programming interfaces and network interoperability using UCS-2 encoding; > [... with network interoperability for OS/2, OS/400 3.1, MVS and AIX 4.1] Astounding news you sent us, Alain. Thanks. Is "network interoperability" meant for the ubiquitous TCP/IP suite? If yes, on what standards (RFCs?) will this interoperability be based? In other words, what will UCS e-mail (SMTP), News (NNTP), Gopher, WWW etc... data look like when coming from these systems and how will the encoding be identified so that a non-UCS system be able to detect it and possibly translate the data to its own ASCII or 8859 format. E.g. during file transfer (FTP) to DOS (not in the announcement), or conversely. I notice the strange absence of the VM/CMS system. Andre'.