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Subject: FYI>Unicode Press Release
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Date: 4/27/94 12:28 PM
From: Mike Kernaghan

For your information.

This is a copy of a press release issued today (4/27/94)
announcing the recent successful Unicode Implementers' Workshop
held in Tokyo Japan, and the release of a new document called
the "Catalogue of Implementations".

Feel free to forward this information onto other distribution
lists or people you feel might be interested in this information.

Thank you,

Mike Kernaghan, Vice President, Unicode Inc.
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                             The Unicode(R) Consortium
                         Welcomes Increased Asian Support for
                              The Unicode Standard(tm)

CUPERTINO, CA. April 27, 1994 --

The Unicode Standard(tm) is ready to address real-world issues from
multilingual computing systems to distributed applications on global
networks.  That was the conclusion of the recent Unicode/ISO 10646
Implementers' Workshop held in Tokyo.  The fifth of a series of
worldwide workshops organized by The Unicode(R) Consortium, this
Asian-base workshop was co-sponsored by Novell Japan and Microsoft
Japan.  Participants from nine different countries saw demonstrations
of the first commercially available implementations supporting The
Unicode Standard and were convinced that the handling of Asian
languages is quite natural.  They learned how even existing
applications and data can be supported in a manner transparent to the
user.

The Unicode Consortium was founded in 1991 and is dedicated to the
development, maintenance, and promotion of The Unicode Standard, a
sixteen-bit, fixed-width, worldwide character encoding.  The Unicode
Standard encodes the characters from the world's principal scripts and
languages, allowing the conversion to and from all national,
international, and vendor code set standards.

Commenting on increased ease of localization, Mr. Shun-Ichi Kajisa,
Manager of Windows NT(tm) Development for Microsoft Japan said:
"Microsoft Japan has had very good experiences porting Windows NT,
which is based on the Unicode standard, to the Japanese market.  The
system is robust and supports Japanese applications well.  By avoiding
the traditional method of Shift-JIS enabling in favor of Unicode, we
were able to achieve significant reductions in manpower and time to
market."

Companies represented at the workshop included Adobe Japan, Apple
Japan, Digital Japan, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM Japan, Just Systems, NEC,
NTT, Oracle Japan, Toshiba, and Yokogawa Hewlett-Packard.

Catalogue of Implementations released:

In conjunction with the Tokyo Workshop, The Unicode Consortium released
the first edition of its "Catalogue of Implementations" that documents
an ever-growing list of products that are based on The Unicode
Standard.  Eighteen products are currently listed, including Windows NT
for Intel and DEC Alpha processors, Netware 4.01 Directory Service(tm),
Typographic International series Postscript Fonts(tm), and Galaxy
Application Environment(tm) from Visix.

"The Unicode Standard provides easier support for international
client/server software, specifically for Asian countries", said Dr. F.
Avery Bishop, Program Manager for Japanese Windows NT development for
Digital Equipment Corporation.  "Therefore, DEC is planning on
implementing Unicode on all supported platforms."

Acceptance in China and Japan:

The Unicode standard treats all scripts equally and its suitability for
the encoding needs of Asia is demonstrated by two significant events.
In December 1993, the Chinese national standards organization adopted
International Standard ISO 10646 (which is code-for-code equivalent to
the Unicode standard) as Chinese National Standard GB 13000.  The
Japanese national standards organization is in the process of doing the
same, and is also creating a set of authorized transcoding tables
between the new standard and the existing Japanese Industrial Standard
character encoding.

As Professor Kohji Shibano, Chair of the JISC Character Coding
Committee charged with developing the new standard noted, "Japan has
translated ISO 10646 to Japanese and is in the process of adopting it
as a Japanese standard, JIS X-0221.  In addition, [the Japanese
Standards organization] JIS is revising its existing standards to be
consistent with the new ISO 10646/Unicode standard."

Mr. Yasushi Nakahara, a senior specialist in operating systems
architecture at Toshiba Corporation, commented on this development.
"Unicode/ISO 10646 is a promising standard for Japan as well.  It will
help to bring together international computing.  Beyond universal
character set standardization, we hope to see further unification of
international and Japanese operating systems' character handling as
well as common APIs for text and internationalization.  This will be a
great benefit to application writers and users by supporting worldwide
portability and interoperability."

The Unicode Consortium:

In addition to cooperating with ISO on the International Standard ISO
10646, the Consortium is responsible for providing technical
information to implementers and promoting the Unicode Standard and ISO
10646.

The Unicode Consortium is comprised of major computer companies.
Members of the Unicode Consortium are: Apple Computer, Digital
Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, I.B.M. Corporation,
Lotus Development Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, NeXT Computer,
Novell, The Research Libraries Group, Symantec Corporation, Taligent,
Unisys Corporation, and WordPerfect Corporation.


The Unicode Consortium can be reached on the Internet at
Unicode-inc@unicode.org, or by phone at (408) 777-5870.

The Unicode Standard and Consortium and the Unicode design mark are trademarks
of Unicode Inc.  All other trademarks are owned by their respective companies.




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