Hi folks,
Please note the new working draft of W3C "Character Model" below.
And (how timely, Elliot) the Unicode Technical Note (TN10)
"Introduction to Indic Scripts" by the W3C's Richard Ishida.
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald
High North Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ishida [mailto:ishida at w3.org]
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 10:18 AM
To: www-international at w3.org
Subject: News: CharMod interim publication; Unicode Tech Note #10, Indic
Scripts
FYI
# 24 Aug 2003 "Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0" Interim
Working Draft Published
The Internationalization Working Group has released an interim Working
Draft of the Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0. The document
addresses character encoding identification, early uniform
normalization, string identity matching, string indexing, and URI
conventions, building on the Universal Character Set defined by Unicode
and ISO/IEC 10646. Read about the W3C Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-charmod-20030822/
# 15 Aug 2003 Unicode Technical Note #10, "An Introduction to Indic
Scripts" Published
A paper by Richard Ishida called "An Introduction to Indic Scripts" has
been published as Unicode Technical Note #10. This paper provides an
introduction to the major Indic scripts used on the Indian mainland.
Those addressed in this paper include specifically Bengali, Devanagari,
Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu.
http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn10/
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Richard Ishida
W3C
contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/http://www.w3.org/International/http://www.w3.org/International/geo/
See the W3C Internationalization FAQ page
http://www.w3.org/International/questions.html