From PRECAL@rulmvs.LeidenUniv.NL Tue May 16 18:33:00 1995 Received: from rulsur.LeidenUniv.nl by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA02782 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Tue, 16 May 1995 17:31:10 +0200 Received: from RULMVS.LeidenUniv.nl (MAILER@HLERUL2) by rulsur.LeidenUniv.NL (PMDF V4.3-10 #2497) id <01HQKUSG2N1C0017WN@rulsur.LeidenUniv.NL>; Tue, 16 May 1995 17:30:30 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:33 +0100 (CET) From: Johan van Wingen Subject: Character Set Manual To: ISO 10646 Discussion List , ASCII/EBCDIC list , i18n mailing list Message-Id: <"95-05-16-17:33:47.96*PRECAL"@RULMVS.LEIDENUNIV.NL> X-Envelope-To: I18N@DKUUG.DK Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Dear Colleagues It is to me a pleasure to announce the publication (at last after many delays) of the Manual: standards for the electronic exchange of personal data, part 5, character sets, published by the Ministry of the Interior of the Netherlands. It is an extended English version of the previous publication in Dutch. It presents a general survey of all standards for coded character sets (130 pages). The contents are: Introduction 1 Data, units and notations 2 Scripts and their constituents 3 Communication and coding, ASCII 4 International standardization of 7-bit codes, ISO 646 5 IBM and EBCDIC 6 International standardization of 8-bit codes, ISO 8859 7 Control functions, ISO 6429 and 10538 8 Code extensions, ISO 2022 and 2375, ISO 4873 and 10367 9 CCITT, Teletex, Videotex and ISO 6937 10 European languages and scripts and their letters 11 The International Register according to ISO 2375 12 Industry codes for printers or personal computers 13 Multiple-octet code, ISO 10646 14 Bibliographical codes, ISO 5426 15 Character as object, identification methods, ISO 7350 16 Conversion and transliteration 17 Input and output of characters 18 Ordering problems 19 Conformance and testing 20 Recommendations ANNEXES 1 Members advisory board character sets 2 Rules for the use of the IJ 3 List of ISO standards in the field of coded character sets 4 Letters For Europe, report on the characters used in the various European languages 5 Contents of the character sets ISO/IEC 8859-1/6, with code and names of characters, ordered to code 6 Characters from ISO 6937 not included in ISO 8859 7 The Atlantic Subset of ISO/IEC 10646-1, in the form of a standard, based on the Repertoire of ISO 6937, with code in ISO/IEC 10646. 8 A Transformation Scheme 9 Map of Europe, with indication of the areas of application of LATIN-1 (vertical grading) en LATIN-2 (horizontal grading) 10 Some keyboards (due to M. Claerhout, IBM Belgium) 11 Codetables from ISO/IEC 8859-1/9 and 6937 and some industrial codetables (IBM EBCDIC, DEC, HP, IBM PC CP 437, CP 850 and Apple) A free copy is available to potential suppliers to the Netherlands Government by sending a request on company paper to: Ministry of the Interior Att. Mr A. Oudenhooven P. O. Box 20011 NL-2500 EA The Hague, The Netherlands Members of SC2/WG2 received a copy at the April 1995 Geneva meeting. People absent there, but on the WG2 mailing list and known as being interested will receive a copy anyhow, as well as people who contacted me before (A Fontaine, J. Bie/n), and those on NNI mailing lists. In addition the Old Faithful having contributed to these lists for years will qualify for a copy. The names I have are F. Da Cruz, J. Chandler, J. Klensin, J. Knappen, E. Naggum, M. Sperberg-McQueen, O. Stolz. Should I have overlooked you, do not hesitate to tell me. Of most of you not on ISO lists I do not have a recent address. Please supply one. Best regards from J. W. van Wingen PRECAL@HLERUL2.BITNET or PRECAL@rulmvs.LeidenUniv.nl