ISO/IEC JTC1/ WG 5 N 0004  	

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Title:		Liaison Report  on the Seattle SC2 Plenary meeting
Source: 	Alain LaBonté, liaison from ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 to JTC1/ WG5
Status:	For information
Date:		1998-04-24

1.	PDAM 22 to ISO/IEC 10646 (Universal Character Set) will encode as characters most IT symbols contained in ISO/IEC 9995-7 (keyboard symbols); this will also be included in the next edition of the standard.

2.	Characters for symbols surrounded by a screen will be obtained by composition (like the Clear Screen symbol, a composition of the Delete symbol surrounded by a screen). Two additional combining characters will allow combination for keyboard usage documentation: a combining Screen and a combining keytop. The advantage of this proposal will be that documentation will be able to use a combining keytop usable with any character of any keyboard.

3.	ISO/IEC 8859-15 coding the EURO SIGN in the Latin-1 countries world for those who have the need (without disturbing those who need not change their Latin 1 usage), has reached FDIS stage. This standard also corrects historical mistakes for French and Finnish (3 characters are missing in Latin 1 to write integral French, 4 characters are missing to cover integral Finnish). 

4.	The UCS (ISO/IEC 10646-1) also codes the EURO SIGN in one of its PDAMs for multioctet technology, for wordwide usage.

5.	The UCS is about to be available on the WEB. SC2 also seeks availability of critical coding standards on the web. It is not yet clear which version of the UCS will be available, nor if the adopted amendments will be, but SC2 requested ITTF to do so.

6.	The ISO character set registry is also about to be only maintained on the web while it was only available on paper before from ECMA. The Registry is now being maintained by Japanese JISC, who is also responsible for the SC2 Secretariat.