                                  ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 N1532
                                                       03-0115

Title: WG20 - internationalization liaison report

Date: 2003-10-27

Source: Keld Simonsen

WG20 - internationalization had its latest meeting in California, USA
15-17th October 2003. 

A revision of the TR 10176 annex A has been completed.
An earlier version of Annex A was used for the development of C++.
This work should probably be updated in WG21.

The TR 14652 has been completed and it is under publication.
TR 14652 has a POSIX-like definition of locales and charmaps, but
the formats have been enhanced to cater for ISO 10646, and a number
of new capabilities have been added. Some of the parts of
the TR are considered controversial by a number of National bodies.

The sorting standard 14651 is being amended, and the 2nd amendment is sent 
out for FPDAM ballot. The standard is updated to the repertoire of
the Unicode standard 4.0. The standard is scheduled to be transferred
to SC2 for maintenance.

WG20 has decided to submit the cultural registry standard ISO/IEC 15897
for FDIS ballot.

WG20 would like to collect information on available facilities for
internationalization in various programming languages and systems.
WG21 is encouraged to supply information on this.

