On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 08:17:58PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Bruno Haible wrote on 2001-01-29 19:32 UTC:
> > Which is the standards body where we could submit such a proposal?
>
> ECMA-48 was the traditional place to handle such things, but ECMA/TC1
> (coded character sets) seems not to be active at the moment according to
> http://www.ecma.ch/.
ECMA TC1 is disbanded. You may have a chance in ISO SC2/WG3 in revising
ISO 6924.
> A (quite large) project that might really be worthwhile doing is to
> author a concise video terminal standard. It should be
>
> - inspired by and as far as feasible (but not religiously!) backwards
> compatible to VT100, xterm, and ECMA-48/ISO 6429
>
> - cut out all the exotic stuff of ISO 6429 that was never widely used
> or widely understood and translate the rest of ISO 6429 from
> Committeese into English
>
> - cut down the state of the terminal to the absolute minimum
> (no fancy mode for every little item the old committees couldn't
> agree on, one single character encoding: UTF-8, etc.)
>
> - make the document easy to read and a useful reference for the
> programmer (ISO 6429 really fails here)
>
> - take into account that charcell hardware isn't used any more today
> (except to boot an IBM PC compatible perhaps) and therefore provide
> useful features that are easy to implement with pixel frame buffers
> (character overstriking, etc.)
>
> - define exact behaviour for some well-defined Unicode subset that seems
> feasible for implementation on charcell terminals (not sure whether
> this will include the Indic scripts in the first version), including
> aspects such as wcwidth()
wcwidth() is pretty much covered in ISO TR 14652 and the new ISO POSIX standard.
> - keep it simple
Good luck.
Keld
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