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NUMATA Toshinori Technical Editor of the LI18NUX 2000 Globalization Specification (but not the OpenI18N 1.3 :-)

LI18NUX 2000 Amendments

LI18NUX 2000 Globalization Specification with change marks:

• Changes made in the Amendment 1
• Changes made in the Amendment 2
• Changes made in the Amendment 3

Some i18n Documents

Note: The documents put here are for your information only. They are quite old and they may be or may not be suitable for your intended usage.

• Draft Japanese National Profile for POSIX Version 2.1 developed by ITSCJ/IPSJ SC22/POSIX WG dated 1992-10-19 (PDF format, 142KB) [no line-numbered version]
• Draft Japanese National Profile for POSIX Version 2.2 developed by ITSCJ/IPSJ SC22/POSIX WG dated 1993-05-07 (PDF format, 161KB) [no line-numbered version]
• UI-OSF Application Platform Profile for Japanese Environment version 1.1, dated 1993-05-21 in Japanese (PDF format, 324KB) and in English (PDF format, 260KB) developed by UI-OSF Japanese Localization Group
• Japanese Locale developed by UI-OSF Japanese Localization Group (tar.gz format, 249KB)
• TOG/JVC CDE Technical WG Deliverables (local copy)

Notes on the Japanese locale

Because there were no standards for Japanese locale components at the time of definition (1993), the Japanese locale definition here has several disagreement with the current standards. The following is an incomplete list of such disagreements.

• The UCS Reference Map (ja_JP.reference-map) included in the Japanese locale is different from the official standard, JIS X 0208:1997. (The standard mapping between JIS X 0208 and UCS is first published in JIS X 0221:1995. Note that this file predates the standard.)
  For mapping between eucJP and UCS, refer to the TOG/JVC definition (local copy).
• The LC_COLLATE definition is not aligned with JIS X 4061:1996 Collation of Japanese string. (Note that this locale definition predates the standard.)
• The character classes defined in LC_CTYPE definition are not consistent with JIS X 4061:1996 (again, for the historical reason).