Also, I heard that the licensing is on a yearly basis.
Michael Everson wrote:
A representative of ISO sent this to me today.
I do not know about ANSI but for ISO/CS the quote given below from
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/ind
ex.html is certainly
I heard that ANSI requires companies to pay a licence fee if they use ISO
language and country codes in their products. Anyone aware of this licence
requirement or already paying for such licence.
ISO 3166-1. Names of Countries and their Subdivisions - Part 1:
Country Codes.
Ken,
Here's an excerpt from the ISO site:
The short country names from ISO 3166-1
and the alpha-2 codes are made available by ISO at no charge for
internal use and non-commercial purposes. The use of ISO 3166-1
in commercial products may be subject
Let us know what you find out.
Thanks,
- Michael
Michael Everson wrote:
That is mighty odd. I have forwarded a query about it to the 3166/MA.
I was in Paris Monday and Tuesday of this week at the TC46/WG2 meeting
where 3166 matters and other matters were discussed.
Markus,
The standard does _not_ require to _process_ internally in GB18030. It
is sufficient to have a converter and to process in Unicode, which does
contain all of the characters.
Just curious, do you have this in writing from the China standards body?
- Michael
Markus Scherer wrote:
Sarada,
NCHAR datatypes in Oracle8i do not support Unicode encodings. In Oracle9i,
the NCHAR datatypes are exclusively Unicode datatypes and supports both
UTF-16 and UTF-8. You can find detail info in the Oracle8i and Oracle9i
Globalization Support Guide and also technical whitepapers in the
I think you are referring to the UTF-EBCDIC for EBCDIC platforms:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/index.html
Oracle8i supports UTF-EBCDIC with an Oracle character set name UTFE. Please
refer to A-17 of the Oracle8i NLS Guide Release 2 (8.1.6) for details.
- Michael
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