From alb@riq.qc.ca Sun Nov 16 13:03:31 1997 Received: from riq.qc.ca (socrate.riq.qc.ca [199.84.128.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA06093 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:03:30 +0100 Received: from 571 (riq-129-170.riq.qc.ca [199.84.129.170]) by riq.qc.ca (1.1/8.8.6) with SMTP id GAA07521; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 06:59:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19971116060956.0073ecb8@riq.qc.ca> X-Sender: alb@riq.qc.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) [F] Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 06:09:56 -0500 To: Ienup Sung From: Alain LaBonté - 2 Subject: Latin 0 current proposal and ISO/IEC 9995-3 international keyboard standard In-Reply-To: <199711141927.LAA05913@nirvana.eng.sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A 11:27 14/11/97 -0800, Ienup Sung a écrit : >Thanks for the info. Would you please enlighten me whether there will be >any change in the code positions, esp. Euro? > >So far it looks like Euro, , and will take the positions of >¤, '¨', '´' and '¸', respectively, at the ISO 8859-15. > >Thanks for your time, > >Ienup [Alain] : No change is likely to occur except for the EURO SIGN, which will most probably come back to the original proposal (it was then replacing the CURRENCY SIGN). The current proposal abstract is (I added for you a note between parenthseis for 11/01): 10/08 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON (LETTRE MINUSCULE LATINE S CARON) 11/01 (** change likely to 10/04 **) EURO SIGN (SYMBOLE EURO) 11/04 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON (LETTRE MAJUSCULE LATINE Z CARON) 11/08 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON (LETTRE MINUSCULE LATINE Z CARON) 11/12 LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE (DIGRAMME SOUDÉ MAJUSCULE LATIN OE) 11/13 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE (DIGRAMME SOUDÉ MINUSCULE LATIN OE) 11/14 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS (LETTRE MAJUSCULE LATINE Y TRÉMA) Btw the meeting last week of ISO/IEC JTC1/WG5 (ex-JTC1/SC18/WG9) in Cupertino, dealing with keyboards, also recommended that the CURRENCY SYMBOL key position in ISO/IEC 9995-3 international keyboard be changed to EURO SIGN as well (it means that those choosing to implement exact Latin 0 for the EURO SIGN and which were already supporting the ISO/IEC 9995-3 keyboard for exact Latin 1 would not even have a change to do, as far as coding is concerned (font is another matter, of course). The CURRENCY SYMBOL is recommended to be moved in the international keyboard on level 3 of the same key where it was in level 2 in the current keyboard standard (i.e on the same key as digit 4, in international "group 2"; (so far there was *no* character in level 3 of this international group). As an editor, I've been instructed to revise a PDAM to ISO/IEC 9995-3 which I had already prepared concerning the EURO SIGN issue on keyboards and take measures to initiate an international ballot on this slight change of the international keyboard standard. Contrary to my initial proposal, JTC1/WG5 will *not* make recommendations regarding national keyboard layouts (only on the international keyboard standard ISO/IEC 9995-3). Consensus was reached on this issue to the satisfaction of all parties. Alain LaBonté Cairo