UTC/1999-019


Akio Kido
99/05/26 08:26

To:   Mark Davis/Cupertino/IBM@IBMUS, Lisa Moore/Santa Teresa/IBM@IBMUS,
      Arnold.Winkler@unisys.com, erik@netscape.com, bobj@netscape.com,
      suehiro@jrd.dec.com, MIKE_KSAR@HP-PaloAlto-om4.om.hp.com
cc:   hiura@eng.sun.com, skline@cup.hp.com
From: Akio Kido/Japan/IBM@IBMJP
Subject:  Unicode new project proposal


Dear all,

The following is my first draft of the new work item proposal to UTC, that I
talked with
you. Hideki Hiura-san kindly accepted to blush-up my initial draft then
distribute it
for your review, but now he is out of contact. So, this is an advanced
information.

If you have any comment or advice, please let me know with cc to Hideki
Hiura-san
and Mark Davis. Also, please inform us if you can join the proposal. I would
like to
ask your support to the proposal.

Mark,
I will continue try to contact with Hideki, but in the case if I fail, could you
please
bring this proposal to the next UTC meeting on June 4th?

> (HP), IBM, (Netscape), and SUN jointly propose a new project to UTC.
> The objectives of the project is make Unicode based locale resources
> and sample implementation of new Unicode technologies available
> through Unicode consortium's Web page. That may includes, 1) Unicode based
> locale description files for each country and language, 2) charmap file
> in which Unicode character name is used for character symbolic name,
> instead of charset unique naming convention, 3) sample implementation
> of code conversion routine with code conversion methods between
> Unicode normalized UTF-16 and legacy encodings, and 4) sample
> implementation of Unicode based internationalization functions,
> including Unicode normalization and index conversion between
> UTF-16 16bit unit count and character count.
>
> The availability of those Unicode resources and sample routine will contribute
> to consistent implementation of Unicode technology everywhere in the real
> cross vendor and real multi-lingual World Wide Web environment.
>
> The originators of this proposal are ready to start the joint development of
> those Unicode resources and sample implementation under Unicode consortium.


Best regards,
Akio Kido (Mgr. of Application SW proj., DBCS Tech. Coordination Office, APTO)
1623-14, Shimotsuruma, Yamato-shi, Kanagawa-ken 242, Japan (LAB-SA1)
E-mail: kido@jp.ibm.com  FAX: +81-462-73-7415





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