Re: Standards (Re: Arabic in fixed width fonts)

[Keld J�rn Simonsen]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:49:07AM -0500, Sandra O'donnell USG wrote:
>    Keld Simonsen wrote:
>    > At 05:38 14/11/2000 +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>    > >We will eventually have to sit down and write a more formal standard than
>    > >
>    > >   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c
>    > >
>    > >that says what wcwidth should be for a VT100 UTF-8 terminal emulator
>    > >(something like an RFC, Unicode TR, or ECMA standard), in order to
>    > >ensure wcwidth interoperability between systems (in the light of telnet,
>    > >ssh, etc.).
>    > . . .
>    
>    I will incorporate Markus table in the forthcoming ISO/IEC DTR 14652.
>    In this way you will have an ISO specification of the data.
> 
> Keld --
> 
> I must be misunderstanding what you wrote. It appears you are
> suggesting that you alone can decide what to put into the draft
> TR 14652 and that you alone decide what is an ISO standard. Since
> there are review rules and votes about ISO standards, I assume I
> am misreading what you wrote. 
> 
> Could you clarify?

I am doing this as per decision of WG20, see WG20 N706R2.

Kind regards
keld
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