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Here are the consolidated answers to the original question from
John R. Durand (jrd@ebt.com):

     hello.  excuse me for asking you but i'm not sure who can answer my question.
     if you can't, just let me know.

     do you know whether this list is still active?  i read in Ken Lunde's book,
     Understanding Japanese Information Processing, that i could subscribe to this
     list be sending mail to unicode-request@unicode.org and asking to be added to
     the list.  i have tried this twice and both times received:

     > From Post office@HQ.M4.Metaphor.COM Thu Nov 18 20:47:21 1993
     > Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 17:34:46 PST
     > To: jrd@ebt.com
     > Subject: Unable To Deliver
     >
     >                                 *** Problems ***
     >
     > Desktop unicode-inc does not exist
     >
     >
     >                            *** Orginal Cover Note ***
     > From: jrd@ebt.com:Unix
     > To:         unicode-inc:hq
     > Copies To:
     > Subject:    Subscribe
     > Postmark:   11/18/93 2:19:15 pm
     > ==================================================
     >
     > Complete distribution list:
     >  unicode-request@Unicode.ORG
     > =====================================================================
     >
     > Please add me to the Unicode mailing list.  thanks!
     >

Jeff
INSOFT-L List Manager

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Sender: Jack Bar-Ness (barness@ct.picker.com)
        Picker International, Inc.

Attached is info regarding the ISO10646 mailing list, which may be what
jrd (and others on INSOFT-L) can use for their Unicode quests.

ISO10646%JHUVM.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU
ISO10646 on LISTSERV@JHUVM

    Purpose:

To serve as a clearing house for information on and discussion of
multi-byte coded-character-set issues.

The ISO 10646 draft and Unicode draft standards represent two different
approaches to encoding the world's characters into a multi-byte code.

    Background:

People are looking at multi-byte codes as a way to solve many of the
problems we are experiencing with single-byte, 7-bit and 8-bit codes.
Although most of us do not need all 191 of the characters in the ISO
8859-1 character set (repertoire), we frequently need characters outside
of this set; for example, bullets or nice quotation marks for
professional looking documents, symbols for mathematics and science, etc.
The reason for developing multi-byte codes is that processing ONE
multi-byte code appears easier than several single-byte codes.

As of March, 1990, two coding schemes have emerged.  The International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) Subcommittee 2, Working Group 2
(SC2/WG2) has developed the ISO 10646 Multi-Octet Code.  It is now a
"draft proposed" standard (two levels removed from being an international
standard).  The ISO working group has been working on this project for
the last 6 years and it has been subject to unusually wide review for a
proposed standard.  The other draft standard is the result of the work of
a consortium of U.S.  companies, mostly from the west coast.  It is
called Unicode.  Both of these draft standards enable the worlds
communication (newspapers and magazines) and business characters,
ideographs, and symbols to be encoded for storage and communication
between computers.  However, each uses a different approach to making the
inevitable tradeoffs.

    Mechanics:

To subscribe send mail to LISTSERV%JHUVM.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU with the
BODY or TEXT of the mail containing the command:  SUB ISO10646
yourfirstname yourlastname

Contributions to the LIST go to ISO10646%JHUVM.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU

    Owner:  Edwin F. Hart  BITNET:  HART@APLVM
                           INTERNET:  HART%APLVM.BITNET@VM1.NODAK.EDU


Sender: Gautier Gerard (gauier@cc.nsysu.edu.tw)

I had about the same problem three weeks ago, but I didn't look for
further information (I thought I did smthg wrong...).
So after all it seems there IS a problem...

Sorry no clue, but if you get to know more, please let me know !


Sender: Jean-Pierre Trevisani (clsib21!jpt@BBN.COM)
        Project Leader, Geac-CLSI Inc.

I have been subscribed for a while.  Here's the last message I got:

Message 90/90  From fxrojas@nlsarch.austin.ibm.com  Nov 10, 93 09:51:25 pm -0600


Return-Path: <nlsarch.austin.ibm.com!fxrojas>
To: tom@raf.com
Cc: unicode@Unicode.ORG
Subject: Re: Some X-Windows related questions
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 21:51:25 -0600


As you see it's not that old.


Sender: Michael Everson <EVERSON@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
        School of Architecture, UCD

Try sending mail to LISTSERV@UNICODE.ORG with the message
SUBSCRIBE UNICODE

I can't promise this will work, but it looks better than the
message you sent. I haven't seen anything on the unicode@unicode.org
list for ages.

Many Unicode issues are dealt with on ISO10646@JHUVM.BITNET