From is@dakota-76.Eng.Sun.COM Mon Nov 17 05:27:28 1997 Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id FAA05412 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 05:27:26 +0100 Received: from Eng.Sun.COM ([129.146.1.25]) by mercury.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/mail.byaddr) with SMTP id UAA05646; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:29:57 -0800 Received: from dakota.eng.sun.com (dakota.Eng.Sun.COM [129.146.74.35]) by Eng.Sun.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-5.3) with SMTP id UAA04270; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:26:49 -0800 Received: from mool.eng.sun.com by dakota.eng.sun.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA26781; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:26:46 -0800 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:26:37 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) From: Ienup Sung Reply-To: Ienup Sung Subject: Re: (i18n.383) Latin 0 current proposal and ISO/IEC 9995-3 international keyboard standard (Fwd) To: i18n@dkuug.dk, unicode@unicode.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE In case you are also interested in the status of Latin-0.=0A=0A>-----------= -----Begin Forwarded Message----------------<=0A=0ADate: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 2= 0:18:52 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)=0AFrom: Ienup Sung =0AS= ubject: Re: (i18n.383) Latin 0 current proposal and ISO/IEC 9995-3=0Aintern= ational keyboard standard To: =3D?us-ascii?Q?Alain_LaBont=3DE9_-_2?=3D=0A<= alb@riq.qc.ca>=0A=0AThanks for the additional info. I remember that you als= o forwarded info on=0Athe status of Latin-0 at SC2/WG3 that ballots (concur= rent NP and FCD) are=0Agoing to close in the next weeks. Just wanted to sha= re the info...=0A=0AMerci beaucoup,=0A=0AIenup=0A=0A=0A] A 11:27 14/11/97 -= 0800, Ienup Sung a =E9crit :=0A] >Thanks for the info. Would you please enl= ighten me whether there will be=0A] >any change in the code positions, esp.= Euro?=0A] >=0A] >So far it looks like Euro, , and will tak= e the positions of=0A] >=A4, '=A8', '=B4' and '=B8', respectively, at the I= SO 8859-15.=0A] >=0A] >Thanks for your time,=0A] >=0A] >Ienup=0A] =0A] [Ala= in] :=0A] No change is likely to occur except for the EURO SIGN, which will= most=0A] probably come back to the original proposal (it was then replacin= g the=0A] CURRENCY SIGN). The current proposal abstract is (I added for you= a note=0A] between parenthseis for 11/01):=0A] =0A] 10/08 LATIN SMALL LETT= ER S WITH CARON (LETTRE MINUSCULE LATINE S CARON)=0A] 11/01 (** change like= ly to 10/04 **) EURO SIGN (SYMBOLE EURO) =0A] 11/04 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z = WITH CARON (LETTRE MAJUSCULE LATINE Z CARON)=0A] 11/08 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z= WITH CARON (LETTRE MINUSCULE LATINE Z CARON)=0A] 11/12 LATIN CAPITAL LIGAT= URE OE (DIGRAMME SOUD=C9 MAJUSCULE LATIN OE)=0A] 11/13 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE= OE (DIGRAMME SOUD=C9 MINUSCULE LATIN OE)=0A] 11/14 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y = WITH DIAERESIS (LETTRE MAJUSCULE LATINE Y=0A] TR=C9MA)=0A] =0A] Btw the mee= ting last week of ISO/IEC JTC1/WG5 (ex-JTC1/SC18/WG9) in=0A] Cupertino, dea= ling with keyboards, also recommended that the CURRENCY=0A] SYMBOL key posi= tion in ISO/IEC 9995-3 international keyboard be changed to=0A] EURO SIGN a= s well (it means that those choosing to implement exact Latin 0=0A] for the= EURO SIGN and which were already supporting the ISO/IEC 9995-3=0A] keyboar= d for exact Latin 1 would not even have a change to do, as far as=0A] codin= g is concerned (font is another matter, of course).=0A] =0A] The CURRENCY S= YMBOL is recommended to be moved in the international=0A] keyboard on level= 3 of the same key where it was in level 2 in the current=0A] keyboard stan= dard (i.e on the same key as digit 4, in international "group=0A] 2"; (so f= ar there was *no* character in level 3 of this international=0A] group). As= an editor, I've been instructed to revise a PDAM to ISO/IEC=0A] 9995-3 whi= ch I had already prepared concerning the EURO SIGN issue on=0A] keyboards a= nd take measures to initiate an international ballot on this=0A] slight cha= nge of the international keyboard standard. Contrary to my=0A] initial prop= osal, JTC1/WG5 will *not* make recommendations regarding=0A] national keybo= ard layouts (only on the international keyboard standard=0A] ISO/IEC 9995-3= ). Consensus was reached on this issue to the satisfaction of=0A] all parti= es.=0A] =0A] Alain LaBont=E9=0A] Cairo=0A=0A=0A>----------------End Forward= ed Message----------------<=0A