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| DOC TYPE: | National Body Contribution
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| TITLE: | US National Body Comments on SC 2 N 3382, Summary of Voting on Combined CD registration and FCD ballot on WD 8859-7, Information technology -- 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character set -- Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet (Revision of ISO 8859-7: 1987) |
| SOURCE: | National Body of USA
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| PROJECT: | JTC 1.02.20.07
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| STATUS: | This document is forwarded to WG 3 for consideration. WG 3 is reminded that the disposition of comment report should be produced within three months of the close of the CD or FCD ballot. |
| ACTION ID: | ACT
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| DISTRIBUTION: | P, O and L Members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2
WG Conveners, Secretariats ISO/IEC JTC 1 Secretariat ISO/IEC ITTF |
| NO. OF PAGES: | 2
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| ACCESS LEVEL: | Defined |
| WEB ISSUE #: | 068
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The US urges the members of SC2 to review and consider the concerns raised in the recent US comments on ISO 8859-7 in SC2 N3382. Please urge the editor of ISO 8859-7 to accommodate the comments of the US National Body! The US are very concerned that the addition of GREEK QUESTION MARK would cause very serious implementation and data conversion problems. De facto, all implementations of 8-bit based Greek processing have been unifying the Greek question mark and the Semicolon symbol. Creating a dis-unification at this stage will make obsolete all existing data created with the previous 8 bit Greek encoding. Furthermore, based on the ambiguity of the current usage, we see no easy way to update or migrate existing data to the proposed standard. Finally, the proposal also introduces another difference in the content of ISO 8859-7 and the Microsoft code page 1253 which is very broadly used in Greece.