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Listed below are abstracts of some of the sessions that the Software
Globalization Committee of SHARE plans to present at our Summer meeting
in Washington D.C. August 16th to 20th.  Please contact myself or SHARE
(312) 822-0932 if you're interested in attending or possibly presenting
at a future SHARE conference.

SHARE is a user group of users of IBM multitasking operating systems on
IBM hardware.  Most of the sessions below are not IBM specific.

Please feel free to contact me if you have further questions.



A530                                                 Monday 1:30P August 16

Software Globalization Committee:
Committee Kickoff and Requirements Update

If you are interested in

o    Marketing your software internationally
o    Extending the reach of your computer systems across international
     borders
o    Maintaining data integrity in a distributed computing environment
o    Understandng what requirements have been submitted and what is
     happening to them,

then this is the session for you. Come out and meet the committee, hear
the line up for the week, hear feedback on the requirements
and voice your comments, problems, and concerns.


A531                                                Tuesday 11:00A  August 17

Introduction To Software Globalization.
An Introduction to the Problems

An introduction to creating software for the Global Marketplace

Have you ever:

o  entered a character on a workstation and then were not able to
   display it or compile a program containing it on your mainframe?

o  tried to view your mainframe file on your workstation?

o  been frustrated by trying to enter and properly print the
   name of your European colleague?

o  had data garbled after transferring it across a network?

o  been confused by the character on the keytop not matching the
   character displayed on the screen?

Then, you are suffering from using closed data in an open environment.

This session offers a strategy for opening up your data to be used in
the Global Marketplace.


A532                                                Tuesday 8:00A  August 17

IBM National Language Architecture, Part 1:
Overview of the Architecture

This session will be of interest to those people involved with developing
applications that will be used across multiple national and linguistic
boundries.

This session will provide an overview of IBM's National Language Architecture.
It will describe how the various components of IBMs National Language
support were developed and will describe how they will be implemented.


A533                                                Tuesday 9:30A  August 17

IBM National Language Architecture, Part 2:
Technical Details of the  Architecture

This is a follow-on session to A532 (National Language Architecture
Overview) and will provide some technical details of the Architecture,
as well as serving as a discussion session for participants to provide
feedback on the material they were presented during session A532.


A534                                              Wednesday 9:30A  August 18

An Introduction To Unicode

This session will provide an overview of the new ISO 10646 Unicode standard.
It will introduce the listener to the concepts of the new standard and
how data will be handled and stored.

It will discuss some of the problems that exist today with data integrity
and how these will be addressed by this new standard.


A535                                                Tuesday 1:30P  August 17

Designing Software to Account for Language and Culture: A
Tutorial on International Language Support, Part 1

When it comes to designing computer products for the international
marketplace, common sense is not that common.  These three sessions
will explore the many misconceptions, assumptions, and "neat tricks"
that prevent computer products from surviving in the marketplace outside
North America.

Few understand the scope of "National Language Support" and fewer still
understand how to provide it.  The cultures of the world require many
subtle changes to our products and if we are not prepared, the cost
will be prohibitive.  In the initial session, we will define the term
"National Language Support", and explore its breadth and its depth.
We will also discuss why National Language Support must be an integral
part of early design, and why true National Language Support is nearly
impossible to retrofit as an afterthought.

This series of sessions was originally presented at SHARE 76 in San
Francisco.


A536                                                Tuesday 3:00P  August 17

Designing Software to Account for Language and Culture: A
Tutorial on International Language Support, Part 2

     This is the second session of a three session sequence which begins
with session A535.

     During this session, we will concentrate on the user/product
interface.  What must be done to the design of a product to enable this
interface to take on a "French" feel, or an "Italian" feel, or a "Greek"
feel?  Translation, to be sure, is required, but is there more?  And what
about translation?  Can we dismiss it as a simple process?  We will discuss
what makes translation expensive, or in some cases impossible.  We will
also discuss transformation, the reformatting of information to meet the
user's expectations -- a seemingly simple but not trivial process.


A537                                              Wednesday 8:00A  August 18

The why's and how's of character sets and code pages:
Tutorial on International Language Support, Part 3

 In this session, on National Language Support, we will delve into the
depths of the products we are building -- the internal processing,
data manipulation, and validity checking that we think create useful
products to sell.  But, just how efficient is a sort that is only half right?
Is data created in the U.K. usable in Canada?  Can the user in Switzerland
actually enter the proper syntax of your command interface?  Will you
accept a client list with the names actually spelled correctly?  You cannot
make assumptions -- international data handling has many traps for the
unwary.  We will discuss these traps and what can be done to avoid them.


A538                                             Thursday 4:30P  August 19

Software Globalization Committee Free-for-All
and Requirements Voting

If you are interested in:

o  Character set standards (10646, Unicode, ASCII)

o  Character integrity and conversion (translation)

o  Character Data Representation Architecture (CDRA) design and
   implementation

o  National Language Support and internationalization

o  National Language Architecture

then, this session is for you.

This session is your chance to ask questions on any and all topics
related to those listed above.

We will also vote on the Software Globalization Committee requirements
at this session.


A541                                               Monday 3:00P   August 16

Encoding the World's Characters:  Features of International
Standard ISO/IEC 10646-1, Universal Coded Character Set

    In the spring, 1993, the final text of ISO/IEC 10646-1 was sent to ISO
for publication.  This session will describe the characteristics of the
ISO/IEC 10646-1.  At this session we will explore and answer the following
questions:

o  What are the characteristics of international standard 10646-1?

o  What work needs to be done to enhance 10646?

     This session will be of interest to those developing applications for
the international market, or those who want to learn about IBM's strategic
code.

     After attending this session, you should have an understanding of the
major characteristics of the ISO/IEC 10646-1 international standard.


A542                                                 Monday 4:30P  August 16

Encoding the World's Characters:  Issues with Enhancements
to ISO/IEC 10646

     Now that ISO/IEC 10646-1 is published, enhancements are being
considered.  At this session we will discuss the issues being debated about
enhancing 10646 and how they might affect SHARE Members.  The chairman will
report on the international 10646 working group meeting in May and the U.S.
codes and character sets committee meeting in June.

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