comp.software.international

  Finding, using, & writing non-English software.

  A forum to discuss software that can handle 'international', i.e.
  non-English, text.  The encouraged topics will include
  1) How to write, where to find, and how to use internationalized 
     software
  2) What hardware/operating systems support internationalized software,
     (e.g. how do I do Asian word processing on
     MS-DOS/MacOS/MS-Windows-NT? what hardware/operating systems
     are available in other countries? What is DOS/V?  How do I 
     read a font from BIOS?  How does X11R6 support Asian keyboard
     input methods?)
  3) How to work with international de jure and de facto standards for
     representation of text, e.g. ASCII, JIS, Shift-JIS, Big5, EUC, 
     GB2312, KSC5601, ISO2022, ISO10646, and Unicode, and why some
     standards are popular in some countries & not others.
  4) How to process text in various languages (e.g. how do you strip
     vowels from Hebrew to get the canonical spelling?  How does one
     sort Chinese?  What is a locale file?)
  5) What magazines, books, and conferences deal with these issues?
  Please try to keep legal and marketing issues out of the group;
  becuase, the intent is to help people find, write, and use 
  non-English mono and multi-lingual software.

  Finding Fonts for Internationalization FAQ
    This FAQ discusses finding fonts for various character sets.
    <internationalization/font-faq>
    From: mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at
    Posted: monthly (15 Jan 1996 21:17:46 GMT)

  Programming for Internationalization FAQ
    This FAQ discusses writing programs which can handle different
      language conventions/character sets/etc. Applicable to all
      character set encodings; with particular emphasis on ISO-8859-1.
    <internationalization/programming-faq>
    From: mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at
    Posted: monthly (17 Jan 1996 04:17:02 GMT)

  ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ
    This FAQ discusses the use of the standardized ISO 8859-1 national
      character set (supports all (W-)European languages).
    <internationalization/iso-8859-1-charset>
    From: mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at
    Posted: monthly (11 Jan 1996 23:06:12 GMT)

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