Standardization in internationalization

Information Technology Standardization

• SC2/WG2 10646
• SC2/WG3 8859 etc
• SC22/WG20 i18n
• SC22/WG15 POSIX
• SC22/WG14 C
• SC18 keyboards

• TC304 Character set technology
• PT01 User requirements on i18n

Ongoing work in internationalization

• European Commission Language Engineering
• MAITS and C3 presentation
• C3 conversion
• RFC1345
• overview of character sets
• WWW i18n
• Winter WWW i18n
• Accent's multilingual WWW etc
• X/Open
• UNICODE
• Character set conversion
• Microsoft i18n
• DEC i18n
• Ken
• Lunde's paper on CJK codesets
• SYSTRAN language machine translation
• SYSTRAN paper
• Rivendel MT
• Globalink
• Babel: multilinguality for the internat society
• SUN Java language
• current i18n plans for Java
• new i18n specs for Java
• Knowledge database
• Multiligual Applications Support Services
• G7 Global Inventory project
• TRANSTERM
• ISLP
• Web consortium API workshop report 9605
• How to make multilingual web pages
• Lingsoft - language translation software
• i18n APIs:
  • Multiligual Unicode Text Toolkit
  • Star+globe i18n utilities, MASS
  • Alis API
  • RAP i18n API (from GNU libc, but free, with source)
  • Multi String string APIs
  • Taligent APIs
  • Basis Technology Unicode APIs
  • Cultural conventions for Asian countries

General Standardization

• ISO/
• IEC
• JTC1
• ITU
• IETF