From domo@tsa.co.uk Thu Jan 31 14:58:27 1991 Received: from mcsun.EU.net by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA00328; Thu, 31 Jan 91 14:58:27 +0100 Received: from kestrel.ukc.ac.uk by mcsun.EU.net with SMTP; id AA23358 (5.65a/CWI-2.70); Thu, 31 Jan 91 14:00:33 +0100 Received: from slxsys by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK with UUCP id aa11272; 31 Jan 91 12:58 GMT Received: from tsa.co.uk by specialix.co.uk id aa07400; Thu, 31 Jan 91 12:05:12 GMT From: Dominic Dunlop Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 11:16:18 GMT Message-Id: <16752.9101311116@tsa.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "K. Yoshimura" "Application of Diacritics to Cyrillic, Need Expressed by ISO USSR Delegate" (Jan 30, 12:51) X-Fax: +44 491 651751 X-Phone: +44 491 652590 X-Address: 9 The Forty, Cholsey, OXON OX10 9LH, U.K. X-Organization: The Standard Answer Ltd. X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.1.2 7/11/90) To: unicode@noddy.eng.sun.com Subject: Re: Application of Diacritics to Cyrillic, Need Expressed by ISO Cc: i18n@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Karen Smith-Yoshimura writes on the Unicode mail list: > >The need for applying diacritics to >Cyrillic letters for bibliographic transcription was precisely the argument for >"floating diacritics" made by the USSR delegate to the ISO TC46/SC4/WG1 meeting > last May. > Looking at my ISO Memento, I find that TC46 handles Information and Documentation, and that WG4 deals with Transliteration of Korean. Goodness me. I'll take that as a useful pointer for my work in connection with POSIX internationalization. Thanks. (TC46/WG4 folks probably think that the JTC1/SC22/WG15 work on POSIX internationalization is a pretty obscure topic, too...) -- Dominic Dunlop