Re: Beta version

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 13:16:50 EST


David Starner and Doug Ewell wondered:

> In a message dated 2002-01-30 21:48:47 Pacific Standard Time,
> starner@okstate.edu writes:
>
> > Is there someplace where we, the unwashed masses, have access to these
> > documents?
>
> Yeah. Good question. I've found some of them myself, in particular the code
> charts, by poking around the WG2 site at dkuug.dk and in other places. If
> they're on the public Internet, I have every right to see them and download
> them, but they clearly weren't put there for that purpose.

The official location of the WG2 site is:

http://www.dkuug.dk/

where you can navigate to the WG2 page.

Or you can avoid the navigation bar, and go direct to:

http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/

The official location of the SC2 document register is:

http://lucia.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/servlets/ScmDoc10?Com_Id=02

(I wish they had a normal index page as a starting point, but there
you are.)

If you go to the SC2 document register, you can search for
SC2 N3584, which is the PDAM 2 to 10646-1, and for SC2 N3585,
which is the PDAM 1 to 10646-2. Or just pick the document
range N3551-N3600 and browse the list.

FDAM's, administrative documents, and some other documents are locked
on that list, but PDAM's and notices are publicly available without
password access.

The two PDAM documents are actually simply links to zipped documents
also sitting on the dkuug.dk server in the SC2 section there. So
if you want to avoid going through the register, here you go:

http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/open/02n3584.zip
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/open/02n3585.zip

If you want to provide feedback on the documents, the right way to
do it is to go through a national body. Obviously, for Unicoders,
the easiest way to do that is by getting formal feedback (as documents,
not just unicode list email chatter) to the UTC, where joint positions
are developed for Unicode and L2 feedback to WG2 through ballotting.

But if you are on the unicode email list but feel it is appropriate
to provide your feedback through another active national body (Ireland,
Japan, Germany, Sweden, Finland, ... whatever), then that, too, is
of course, up to you.

If you are in any doubt about who the national bodies are, ISO
keeps a list:

http://www.iso.ch.iso/en/aboutiso/isomembers/MemberList.MemberSummary?MEMBERCODE=10

will get you directly there.

--Ken



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