From keld@dkuug.dk Fri Nov 16 00:19:44 1990 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 90 00:19:44 +0100 From: Keld J|rn Simonsen X-Sequence: i18n@dkuug.dk 5 Errors-To: i18n-request@dkuug.dk Message-Id: <9011152319.AA01922@dkuug.dk> To: i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: X Windows locale and input method X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 MIT has announced that they are making X Windows locales according to POSIX specs, and they also have an input method. Date: Thu, 8 Nov 90 09:43:35 -0600 To: Polyglot@tira.uchicago.edu Date: Thu, 01 Nov 90 11:00:09 -0500 From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Bob Scheifler) Subject: Consortium Draft Standard Available For Public Review: Xlib I18N (Note: i18n = i + 18 letters + n = internationalization) An MIT X Consortium draft standard covering changes to Xlib in support of internationalization is now available for Public Review. This draft standard establishes a basic framework for internationalized support of keyboard input, text display, text interchange, and resource management, based on the locale model developed by other standards bodies. The objective of this Public Review is to determine if the current draft is acceptable as a Consortium standard. Public Review can result in changes to the draft standard. Further work by the X Consortium on internationalization of the Xt Intrinsics may also result in changes to this draft standard. The Xlib support is being made available at this time, in advance of the Xt changes, in order to solicit feedback as early as possible. Public Review of Xlib I18N is scheduled to end February 15, 1991. The X community is encouraged to review the draft and submit comments by electronic mail to i18n@expo.lcs.mit.edu Comments sent to other addresses are not guaranteed to be considered. Commentors should take the review process seriously, and should: 1. Identify objectionable functionality and wording in the document. 2. Suggest specific alternative functionality and wording. and most importantly: 3. Provide a rationale for the suggested changes. Commentors should also carefully distinguish between: 1. Problems that they regard as intolerable and that must be corrected before the specification becomes a standard. 2. Aspects that they do not like but could live with for a few years until a future revision of the standard. 3. Additional functionality that they can live without in an initial standard but would like to see in a future revision. A Consortium committee will review the comments and respond to commentors. The specification is split into two separate documents, one covering keyboard input methods, and one covering the remainder of the changes. The following documents are available via anonymous ftp to expo.lcs.mit.edu in the directory /pub/DOCS/i18n/ xlib.text Xlib changes (except for Input Method) in plain text xim.ms X Input Method troff source (use tbl and -ms macros) xim.ps X Input Method in PostScript xim.text X Input Method in plain text The documents are also available via the archive server at xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu. The following items are available, by sending a message with the Subject: line of "send docs " and an empty message body: xlib.text.1 Xlib changes document in 2 parts xlib.text.2 xim.ms X Input Method troff source xim.ps.1 X Input Method in PostScript in 3 parts xim.ps.2 xim.ps.3 xim.text X Input Method in plain text For example, use "send docs xim.ms" to retrieve the Input Method troff source Some mailers produce mail headers that are unusable for extracting return addresses. If you use such a mailer, you won't get any response. If you happen to know an explicit path, you can include a line like path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu or path bar!foo!frotz in the body of your message, and the daemon will use it. If you simply cannot obtain these documents from the network, you may request a paper copy by writing to: MIT X Consortium, Room 217 Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139