Re: are Unicode codes somehow specified in official national linguistic literature ? (worldwide)

From: Erkki Kolehmainen (erkki.kolehmainen@kotus.fi)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2006 - 02:05:59 CDT

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    Several national standards bodies have already established at some level
    a liaisonship with Unicode for the express purpose of working on the
    CLDR. These include Finland, Ireland, Norway and Sweden, and the
    European CEN/ISSS Cultural Diversity Focus Group has also joined
    recently, although that relationship hasn't become truly active yet.

    Erkki I. Kolehmainen

    Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    > Philippe Verdy wrote:
    >
    >
    >>And may be, create a new formal working group separate from the UTC,
    >>for working on localization issues,
    >>
    >
    > This already exists: the CLDR-TC
    >
    > http://www.unicode.org/consortium/tc-procedures.html
    >
    > and
    >
    > http://www.unicode.org/cldr/process.html
    >
    >
    >>and also send an invitation to ISO to support this working group.
    >>
    >
    > Such invitations are regularly extended through normal Unicode
    > Consortium liaison relationships with other standards organizations.
    >
    >
    >>The main problem with ISO is that its members are governments only,
    >>and they often support only the official languages.
    >>
    >
    > This is a serious issue for work on the Common Locale Data
    > Repository, but equally serious is the widespread and
    > continuing perception that *only* ISO can deal with
    > internationally relevant standards. ISO's claim to ownership
    > of "International Standards" and of the process of international
    > standardization gets in the way sometimes when some other
    > standards development organization (SDO) is working on a technical
    > standard that has international relevance.
    >
    > This continually trips up groups dealing with fast-developing
    > technical standards, on both sides of the perception divide.
    >
    > --Ken
    >
    >
    >



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