Multilingual Strings

"Ella P. Gardner" <epg@gateway.mitre.org> Wed, 02 September 1992 17:56 UTC

Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 13:48:01 -0400
From: "Ella P. Gardner" <epg@gateway.mitre.org>
Full-Name: Ella P. Gardner
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Subject: Multilingual Strings


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From: "Sharon (S.M.) Boeyen" <boeyen@bnr.ca>
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Hi Ella, in response to the last para of the message from Markus, I
tried to send the following to the list.  I don't know what went wrong.
Could you possibly send it for me to the osi-ds list, I'll have to
check into our gateway.  That's likely where the problem is.
Thanks Sharon


Regarding the last paragraph of your previous message on multi-strings.

The problem is a recognized one in the ISO/IEC and CCITT arenas as well.
There is a proposal for a New Project on Internationalization of the
Directory out for ballot right now in ISO/IEC JTC 1.  I don't know the
JTC 1 document number for the official ballot but if you want to see the
documentation of the proposal for new work it is contained in an ISO/IEC
JTC 1 SC 21 document (N 7019).

The 1992 edition of the Directory standard introduces a type for strings
encoded in the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) ISO 10646, but this
by itself is not sufficient for the Directory to support an international
distributed environment.

The issues you are currently discussing are directly relevant to this
proposed project in ISO.  Even more critical that ordinary attribute values
in entries is support for those used in naming entries, if the Directory
is to be used both locally in various parts of the world and distributed
across those same parts.

The initial proposal submitted for consideration in ISO introduces alternate
RDN values and alternate attribute values.

Should the project be approved, following the current ballot, technical
work on the subject is scheduled to begin at the SC 21 meeting in
Yokohama Japan, June 1993.

If work is progressed earlier in another forum, it would certainly be
valuable to have it as input to that 93 meeting.

Sharon Boeyen
Bell-Northern Research
Canada
(boeyen@bnr.ca)


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Multilingual Strings Markus Kuhn (Inf4 - hiwi)
Multilingual Strings Ella P. Gardner