On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:03:51PM +0000, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> Keld Simonsen wrote:
> > I will incorporate Markus table in the forthcoming ISO/IEC DTR 14652.
> > In this way you will have an ISO specification of the data.
>
> My table in
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c
>
> is still a bit in a state of flux though and should not yet be seen as
> my finalized submission to ISO. I want to add a few more non-spacing
> characters as wcwidth()==0 and probably cause all Hangul Jamo to return
> -1. Also I want to make some Arabic ligatures wcwidth()==2 and I want to
> see more feedback and practical usage experience before I would consider
> my table ready for ISO publication.
Yes, I saw your proposal on the UCS control characters, and
included them. I could have made the list myself, based eg on the Unicode
data file, but your specification seemed fine and was easy to
integrate in 14652. You can see the result in WG20 N801
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n801.pdf
> Could you please send instead of ISO document numbers such as
> "WG20�N706R2" the corresponding URL? That would be very helpful in
> quickly and painlessly following up such references (which hopefully are
> not kept secret behind password-protected web sites). Thanks!
http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/n706r2.txt
it is not protected.
> Note that I also try to make every effort to include URLs into my
> postings when I reference documents. Non-URL references to documents
> should really be used only in exceptional circumstances (such as books
> that are not available online but can be found in good libraries). All
> ISO committees should ensure that all their work is 100% traceable and
> referenceable online. I think this is a very important quality-assurance
> requirement for this sort of work.
Both you and Sandra are on the Wg20 email list and I thought you would
know your way around to find WG20 documents. Anyway you have the urls
above and I also use urls from email a lot just to click on them in
my X windows. I wholeheartedly support your requirements for having
ISO documents readily available online in a fully traceable manner,
viz. my work on maintaining a number of web sites in the area.
Kind regards
Keld
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