From ALB@immedia.ca Sun Oct 12 08:45:00 1994 Received: from Clouso.CRIM.CA by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA03350 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 12 Oct 1994 14:52:42 +0100 Received: from immedia.ca by clouso.crim.ca (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17676; Wed, 12 Oct 94 09:52:15 EDT Return-Path: Received: by immedia.ca (3.2/2.D) id AA18233; 12 Oct 94 13:48:04 -0500 Date: 12 Oct 94 13:45:00 -0500 From: ALB@immedia.ca Message-Id: <199410121348.AA18233@immedia.ca> To: i18n@dkuug.dk, iso10646@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu, sc22wg20@dkuug.dk, tc304@dkuug.dk Cc: bealle@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com, ca-jtc1-sc18@microstar.com, cpwg-mail@revcan.ca, paref@vm1.ulaval.ca, rob@unb.ca Subject: Re: UCS Support "in the pipeline" X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 ---------- Concerning Andr's annexed comment on my report of yesterday about UCS availability on IBM products, I will pass on that information to IBM experts. I don't have any answer to provide yet, as I don't know if it' aimed at IBM proprietary internetwork capabilities or TCP/IP. VM is indeed absent of the list: certain things were announced for NLS on VM systems, but not UCS (and I don't even know if it's in the mill). Btw, Andr, do not consider the addresses you have in the CC field as correct, as there is a MAILER formatting problem either at the IMMEDIA site or at the CRIM site, in which, when I have too many addresses, there is formatting overlaps (some of the addresses you took from my mails, you may have seen it already by the bouncings, are invalid). Alain LaBont Message original: ============================================================================== A: RNET (ALAIN LA BONTE' ,), RNET (MULTI-BYTE CODE ISSUES ), ALB CC: RNET (I18N@DKUUG.DK,), RNET (ISO10646@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU,), RNET (BEALLE@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM,), RNET (CA-JTC1-SC2@MICROSTAR.CA,), RNET (VM1.ULAVAL.CAROB@UNB.CA) De: RNET (PIRARD@vm1.ulg.ac.be) Objet: Re: UCS Support "in the pipeline" Date: mer 12 oct 94 Heure: 12:14 TU Type: Mail Livraison: Reguliere ============================================================================== 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'.