> - When did the ISO 10646 project start?
A paper that I wrote ("International Character Sets - the 7/8 bit story") for an April
1985 conference at Digital references a note from Masami Hasegawa, the original editor
of 10646. This note was dated 17 October 1984. Masami's paper "Towards Multi-Lingual
Data Processing" for the same conference has the paragraph
'In the plenary meeting of TC97/SC2 of ISO, which is a sub-committee for information
coding, it was decided that an International Standard is needed for a two byte
graphic character set. Thus a working group WG2, two-octet graphic, was formed to
write a draft proposal.'
> - When did Unicode and ISO 10646 merge?
See
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=hasegawa+ISO+10646&hl=en&selm=10635%40sun103.crosfield.co.uk&rnum=2
for a report on the first (or one of the first) merger meetings.
> - When was ISO 8859 published?
The above paper has it that the ECMA standard was approved in December 1984 and that
ISO and ANSI were approving it as the paper was written in early 1985.
Tim Greenwood
