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Organizations involved in I18N and character encoding
1. Formal standards organizations
1.1. ISO -- International Organization for Standardization
1.1.1. ISO/TC 46 -- Information and documentation, incl. bibliographic character sets
1.2. ITU -- International Telecommunication Union
1.3. JTC1 -- Information Technology Standards
1.3.1. SC 02 - Coded Character Sets
WG
2 - Multi Octet Codes (ISO/IEC 10646)
WG
3 - 7 and 8 bit Codes and Their Extension (ISO/IEC 8859-x, ISO/IEC 2022,
etc…)
1.3.2. SC 22 - Programming Languages, their Environments and Systems Software Interfaces
WG19 - Formal Specification Languages
1.3.3. SC 28 - Office Equipment
1.3.4. SC 31 - Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques
1.3.5. SC 32 - Data Management and Interchange
1.3.6. SC 34 - Document Description and Processing Languages
1.3.7. SC 35 - User Interfaces
1.3.8. SC 36 - Information Technology for Learning, Education, and Training
1.3.9. SC 37 - Biometrics
1.4. US National Standards Organizations
1.4.1. ANSI -- American National Standards Institute
1.4.2. INCITS -- InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standardization
Technical Committees related to character sets and internationalization and their assignment as Technical Advisory Groups to international committees:
L2 character sets and internationalization, TAG to SC2/WG2, SC2/WG3, and SC22/WG20
J4 COBOL, TAG to SC22/WG4
J11 C , TAG to SC22/WG14
J16 C++ , TAG to SC22/WG21
L8 Metadata
V2 Accessibility, TAG to SC35
V36 Learning, education and training, TAG to SC36
2. Consortia
2.1. IETF -- Internet Engineering Task Force
Active working groups:
· Operations and Management Area
2.2. W3C -- World Wide Web Consortium
I18N related work areas:
XML
HTML
CSS
SOAP
WAI -- Web Access Initiative
2.3. Unicode -- Unicode Consortium
Bi-directional algorithm
Collation
Normalization
2.4. The Open Group
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