Re: Cultural registry as international standard

From: Tom Garland SMI European Software Centre (Tom.Garland@ireland.sun.com)
Date: Thu Sep 17 1998 - 05:07:09 EDT


Keld.
Apologies for the ignorance but does this mean that the _data_ supplied in the
registry is also officially approved by standards bodies?

rgds

tom

> X-Uml-Sequence: 5958 (1998-09-16 22:18:43 GMT)
> From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
> To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 15:18:42 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Cultural registry as international standard
>
> The cultural register, ISO/IEC 15897 was approved as an international
> standard in late August 1998. It facilitates international unique
> registration of specification on cultural items, that can vary
> between countries, languages and cultures, intended for computer use.
>
> The data comes in a free-form, narrative specification, and also in
> POSIX locale and charmap formats that are compilable and installable
> under POSIX conforming systems. The data is available from
> http://www.dkuug.dk/cultreg/
>
> The cultural register was initially standardized by CEN as ENV 12005.
> A number of registrations have been done with the registry, including
> registrations for Denmark and many charmaps.
>
> Regards
> Keld Simonsen



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