ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3156
DATE: 1998-08-05
  
ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 
Coded Character Sets 
Secretariat: Japan (JISC)
 
 
DOC TYPE:   National Body Contribution 
 
TITLE:  
 		 National Body Comments on SC 2 N 3088: Application for Registration No 205, Supplementary set for Latin-4 alternative with EURO SIGN
SOURCE:  
 		 National Bodies of Canada, UK and US
PROJECT:  
 		 --
STATUS:  
 		 These comments are forwarded to the Registration Authority for consideration.
ACTION ID:  
 		 FYI
DUE DATE:    
DISTRIBUTION:   P, O and L Members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 
WG Conveners, Secretariats 
ISO/IEC JTC 1 Secretariat 
ISO/IEC ITTF 
 
NO. OF PAGES: 
 		 2
ACCESS LEVEL: 
 		 Open
WEB ISSUE #:  
 		 024
Secretariat ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 - Toshiko KIMURA
IPSJ/ITSCJ (Information Processing Society of Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan)*
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Canada
Due date 1998 07 31
Document number JTC1/2N3088 - registration #205 - Latin-4 supplement

Canada does not agree that this registration should go ahead - with the current identified sponsorship.
None of the countries currently using Latin-4 are part of the Euro Zone countries.  If there is a future requirement for these countries, the corresponding national bodies who intend to make this G1 set as a
national requirement should be identified as sponsors.  WG 3 cannot be identified as the sponsor since there was no resolution of WG3 to that effect.


UK
The UK approves Registration Nos. 203, 204, 205, 206.


US
The U.S. vote for Registration # 205 Latin-4 supplement

Document: SC2 N 3088

The U.S. vote is to disapprove.
 
Comments:
It is not necessary since 8859-15 has been approved.  This will be too costly for vendors to implement and we see little commercial value in this registration.

None of the countries using Latin-4 are part of the Euro Zone in the EMU.  Source of this registration cannot be SC2/WG 3 -- at least one of the NBs using Latin-4 has to become the sponsor.  Otherwise, the requirement for this G1 set registration is highly questionable.

These registration is simply an invitations to more 2022 mischief and interoperability problems with data that is *almost* like Latin-1, Latin-4, or Latin-7, except for a single character. In our view, this is a recapitulation of the ISO 646 national variant currency nonsense and should be completely eschewed in favor of full 10646 implementations to get EURO SIGN support.