What about ISO - The International Organization for Standardization? It is common practice sometimes to keep the acronyms although they are from another language.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antoine Leca [mailto:Antoine.Leca@renault.fr]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 7:33 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Acronyms
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> I deleted the message I am trying to answer, so the subject is
> wrong and it will appear misplaced if your MUA presents the messages
> threaded...
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> Anyway, about Michael's acronyms, I believe part of the answer can
> be found in the title of ISO/IEC FCD 10646-2 (IS scheduled for 2001-12):
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> Information technology -- Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character
> Set (UCS) -- Part 2: Secondary Multilingual Plane for scripts and
> symbols, Supplementary Plane for CJK Ideographs, Special Purpose Plane
>
> Ou en franais :
> Technologies de l'information -- Jeu universel de caract res cods
> plusieurs octets (UCS) -- Partie 2: Plan multilingue secondaire
> pour caractres et symboles, plan suppl mentaire pour idogrammes
> CJK, plan but particulier
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>
> Which appears to me as slightly wrong, because the acronym for UCS in
> French ought to be JUC, as in the French title of part 1, or even
> better J.U.C. I hope this is not yet engraved in hard stone and that
> it will be corrected before it becomes too late. Michael?
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> Antoine
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