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