Question: Using SGML for non-romance languages

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2 total messages Started by Lee Althen Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:25

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Author: Lee Althen
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:25

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Does anyone have any advice for how to handle non-romance characters
such as Japanese within an SGML document? Are there non-romance language
character entity definitions for these like the ISO character entity
sets ISO-pub, ISO-latin1, etc.?

Re: Question: Using SGML for non-romance languages

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Author: MASON J D
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:04

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The lists of character entities in ISO 8879:1986 are being moved
to/updated in/replaced by/supplemented in parts of ISO TR 9573, the
expanded version of the technical report on Techniques for Using SGML.
Much of this work is still in progress in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8. If you
have an interest, you are invited to join the work through your national
standards body (e.g., ANSI, BSI, AFNOR, DIN). You should also contact
the editor of the technical report:

Dr. Anders Berglund
ISO Central Secretariat
1, rue de Varembé
Case postal 56
Genève 20  CH-1211
SWITZERLAND
Telephone: +41 22 749 03 33
Telefax: +41 22 733 34 30
Network: Berglund@isocs.iso.ch


For work on East Asian applications of SGML, you might also contact the
chairman of the Japanese delegation to WG8:

Dr. Yushi Komachi
Panasonic/MGCS
2-3-8 Shimomeguro, 
Meguro-ku
Tokyo  153
JAPAN
Telephone: +81 3 3491 9191
Telefax: +81 3 3495 4620
Network: komachi@mgcs.mei.co.jp


Both Dr. Berglund and Dr. Komachi have worked closely with the
Association for Font Information Interchange, which has been working
with ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2 on the publication of ISO 10646, which includes
encodings for many of the world's writing scripts, including the East
Asian languages. The AFII registrar is

Mr. Edwin J. Smura
Xerox Corporation
701 S. Aviation Ave., ESAE-364
El Segundo, CA  90245
U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 310 333-9940
(AFII) +1 310 596 4457
Telefax: +1 310 333 6879
Network: ESmura.ESAE@Xerox.com


We would be glad to hear from you in standards development

James D. Mason
Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8
masonjd@ornl.gov

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