APCCIRN-031

(Practical and Internet views of)

Internationalization Issues

memo by jun for APCCIRN Jan. 14, 1993

Active participations to the existing groups would be important.

Unless somebody very active in this area of study participating this

group, we should try to circulate information of related activities as

complete as possible as a group.

Regular standardization activities

ISO character code related standardization activities

OSI application area activities

POSIX standardization activities

X consortium (MIT)

ISODE

X.400/X.500 test bed environment software

Paradise

X.500 directory service pilot project

GNU Project

Mule - see faq below:

A-1: What is Mule?

Mule is an enhancement of GNU Emacs. It supports a multi-lingual

environment. Mule has the following features:

* It can handle not only ASCII characters (7 bit) and ISO Latin-1

characters (8 bit), but also 16 bit characters like Japanese, Chinese,

and Korean. Furthermore Mule can have a mixture of languages in a

single buffer.

* You can set different coding systems for file input/output,.$@!!.(J

keyboard input, and inter-process communication.

* When not in the multi-lingual mode, it behaves almost like GNU

Emacs.

A-2: How can I get Mule?

Mule is available via anonymous FTP from:

etlport.etl.go.jp: /pub/mule

sh.wide.ad.jp: ~ftp/JAPAN/mule

Please use sh.wide.ad.jp unless you are in Japan. Both the complete

tar file of Mule and the diff file to GNU Emacs 18.58 are available.

Please take the diff file if you already have GNU Emacs.

## LIST OF CHARACTER SETS

## LEADING-CHAR:BYTES:COLUMNS:TYPE:GRAPHIC:FINAL-CHAR:DOC[:BDF-FILE[:ENCODING]]

000:1:1:0:0:66:ASCII:etl24-latin1.bdf:0

129:2:1:1:1:65:ISO8859-1 Latin-1:etl24-latin1.bdf:1

130:2:1:1:1:66:ISO8859-2 Latin-2:etl24-latin2.bdf:1

131:2:1:1:1:67:ISO8859-3 Latin-3:etl24-latin3.bdf:1

132:2:1:1:1:68:ISO8859-4 Latin-4:etl24-latin4.bdf:1

134:2:1:1:1:70:ISO8859-7 Greek:etl24-greek.bdf:1

135:2:1:1:1:71:ISO8859-6 Arabic

136:2:1:1:1:72:ISO8859-8 Hebrew

137:2:1:0:1:73:JIS X0201 Japanese Katakana:12x24rk.bdf:1

138:2:1:0:0:74:JIS X0201 Japanese Roman:12x24rk.bdf:0

140:2:1:1:1:76:ISO8859-5 Cyrillic:etl24-cyrillic.bdf:1

141:2:1:1:1:77:ISO8859-9 Latin-5:etl24-latin5.bdf:1

144:3:2:2:0:64:JIS X0208-1976 Japanese Old

145:3:2:2:0:65:GB 2312-1980 Chinese:cclib24st.bdf

146:3:2:2:0:66:JIS X0208 Japanese:jiskan24.bdf

147:3:2:2:0:67:KS C5601-1987 Korean:hanglm24.bdf

148:3:2:2:0:68:JIS X0212 Japanese Supplement

152:3:2:2:0:48:Big5 Level 1

153:3:2:2:0:49:Big5 Level 2

154:3:1:0:0:0:1-byte/1-column private character sets

155:3:2:0:0:0:1-byte/2-column private character sets

156:4:1:0:0:0:2-byte/1-column private character sets

157:4:2:0:0:0:2-byte/2-column private character sets

160:3:1:0:0:48:PinYin-ZhuYin:etl24-sisheng.bdf:0

161:3:1:0:1:49:Thai TSCII

IETF

MIME - Message body (and header) to handle non-US ASCII

(some of ) Internet/IETF related documentations:

N. Borenstein (Bellcore) and N. Freed (Innosoft), "MIME (Multipurpose

Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing

the Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC1341, June 1992

Jun Murai, Mark Crispin, Erik van der Poel, "Japanese Character

Encoding for Internet Message Bodies", 1st December 1992, Internet

Draft, draft-ietf-822ext-iso2022jp-02.txt,

draft-ietf-822ext-messagebodies-06.ps, ietf-822@dimacs.rutgers.edu.

John Klensin (WG Chair), Ned Freed (Editor), Marshall Rose, Einar

Stefferud, David Crocker, " SMTP Service Extension for

8bit-MIMEtransport", Tue Nov 24 12:30:01 1992, Internet Draft,

draft-ietf-smtpext-8bit-mime-00.txt

K. Moore, "Representation of Non-ASCII Text in Internet Message

Headers", RFC1342, June 1992

N. Borenstein (Bellcore), "A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For

Multimedia Mail Format Information", RFC1343, June 1992

N. Borenstein (Bellcore), "Implications of MIME for Internet Mail

Gateways", RFC1344, June 1992

K. Simonsen, "Character Mnemonics & Character Sets", RFC1345, Rationel

Almen Planlaegning, June 1992

John Klensin (WG Chair), Ned Freed (Editor), Marshall Rose, Einar

Stefferud, David Crocker, "SMTP Service Extension for

8bit-MIMEtransport", Internet Draft, Tue Nov 24 12:30:01 1992