L2/00-165 Report about the ISO/TC46 meeting in Berlin By Joan Aliprand May 2000 Greetings from Berlin, site of this year's TC 46 meeting (hosted by DIN). The TC46/SC4/WG1 meeting yesterday went VERY well. There was only one change to the recommendations in the RLG member contribution on corrections to TC 46 mappings (submitted through NISO). Two more of the TC 46 stds. (math and Greek) are now eligible for transfer to JTC1/SC2 (& SC2 can be expected to delegate them to WG3). Randy has an action item to contact Kimura-san to find out what the RA requires to expedite registration of the TC 46 standards that don't have escape sequences. It was agreed that the definition of mapping tables for TC 46 standards is a task separate from getting them registered. The remainingTC 46 standards are: Glagolitic -- a superset (due to variant forms) of Michael Everson's proposal; Hebrew -- expert input needed on whether cantillation marks in Table 2 that do not have Unicode/UCS equivalents are variant forms or genuine characters; Non-Slavic Cyrillic -- variant forms of existing Cyrillic letters, and the Latin letters in Cyrillic context issue; Bibliographic control characters -- used as a C1 set in the 8-bit world, and some of the controls are most definitely in use. The outstanding TC 46 standards will be taken up at next year's meeting. That gives us 12 months to develop technical solutions to the issues. My thanks to Ken and Ed for their support and review of the RLG submission (which incorporated the L2 work of 1998). On to vacation! followed by the MELCOM International conference in Venice. -- Joan