From tex at i18nguy.com Sun Nov 9 16:13:24 2003 From: tex at i18nguy.com (Tex Texin) Date: Sun Nov 9 16:13:54 2003 Subject: [I18n-sig] LAST Call for Papers- Unicode IUC25-March 2004- Washington, D.C., USA Message-ID: <3FAEADF4.C5E11905@i18nguy.com> Only 1 week left to propose papers for the next Unicode Conference! Submissions are due Nov. 14. In addition to the conference's highly-regarded ensemble of up-to-date information on internationalization and Unicode best practices, this conference will additionally focus on solutions that address the language and multilingual requirements of governments and industries around the world. The conference will be held at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, VA, USA Send in your submissions now! IUC25 Call for Papers - March 2004 - Washington, D.C., USA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Call for Papers! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Twenty-fifth Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC25) Unicode in Government: Building a Multilingual Infrastructure See Call for Papers at: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25/iuc25call.html March 31 - April 2, 2004 Washington, D.C., USA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Send in your submission now! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Submissions due: Nov. 14, 2003 Notification date: Dec. 5, 2003 Papers due: Jan. 9, 2004 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Unicode in Government <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Technologies built on the Unicode Character Standard make it feasible today to build a multilingual infrastructure that satisfies these requirements. This conference will examine the requirements and explore recent advances as well as traditional best-practices. The Washington DC venue was specifically chosen to allow discussion and peer networking around the needs of government including topics such as U.S. Homeland Security, and the European Union's challenges supporting all its official languages. The conference web site has more details and numerous example topics: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc25/iuc25call.html INVITATION TO SUBMIT PAPERS The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the premier technical conference worldwide for both software and Web internationalization. The conference features tutorials, lectures, and panel discussions that provide coverage of standards, best practices, and recent advances in the globalization of software and the Internet. The conference continues to provide a forum for identifying and discussing new issues in this field. New technologies, innovative Internet applications, and the evolving Unicode Standard bring new challenges along with their new capabilities. This technical conference will explore the opportunities created by the latest advances, how to leverage them, and the potential pitfalls. Their impact on business and the problem areas that need further research will also be identified. Best practices for designing applications that can accommodate any language will be demonstrated. Attendees benefit from the wide range of basic to advanced topics and the opportunities for dialog and idea exchange with experts and peers. We invite you to submit papers on the conference themes or topics that relate to Unicode or any aspect of software and Web Internationalization. You can view the programs of previous conferences at: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/conference/about-conf.html CONFERENCE ATTENDEES Conference attendees are generally involved in either the development and deployment of Unicode software, or the globalization of software and the Internet. They include managers, software engineers, testers, systems analysts, program managers, font designers, graphic designers, content developers, web designers, web administrators, site coordinators, technical writers, and product marketing personnel. EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITIES The Conference SHOWCASE area is for corporations and individuals who wish to display and promote their products, technology and/or services. Every effort will be made to provide maximum exposure, advertising and traffic. Exhibit space is limited. For further information or to reserve a place, please contact Global Meeting Services at info@global-conference.com. THE UNICODE CONSORTIUM The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development, maintenance and promotion of The Unicode Standard, a worldwide character encoding. The Unicode Standard encodes the characters of the world's principal scripts and languages, and is code-for-code identical to the international standard ISO/IEC 10646. The Consortium also defines character properties and algorithms for use in implementations. The membership base of the Unicode Consortium includes major computer corporations, software producers, database vendors, research institutions, international agencies and various user groups. For further information on the Unicode Standard, visit the Unicode Web site at http://www.unicode.org or e-mail info@unicode.org * * * * * Unicode(r) and the Unicode logo are registered trademarks of Unicode, Inc. Used with permission. From perky at i18n.org Sat Nov 29 20:08:32 2003 From: perky at i18n.org (Hye-Shik Chang) Date: Sat Nov 29 20:08:39 2003 Subject: [I18n-sig] CJKCodecs 1.0.2, iconvcodec 1.1.2 are released. Message-ID: <20031130010832.GA92990@i18n.org> CJKCodecs 1.0.2 and iconvcodec 1.1.2 have been released as new maintenance release. CJKCodecs is a unified unicode codec set for Chinese, Japanese and Korean encodings. It supports full features of unicode codec specification and PEP293 error callbacks on Python 2.3. CJKCodecs is supporting these encodings in this time: big5 cp932 cp949 cp950 euc-jisx0213 euc-jp euc-kr gb18030 gb2312 gbk hz iso-2022-jp iso-2022-jp-1 iso-2022-jp-2 iso-2022-jp-3 iso-2022-kr johab shift-jis shift-jisx0213 utf-7 utf-8 And iconvcodec is an adaptive interface that enables POSIX iconv(3) as python unicode codec. Iconvcodec is supporting these iconv implementations now: GNU libc, GNU libiconv, FreeBSD iconv (old), SunOS libc, HP-UX 11.11 libc What's new in CJKCodecs 1.0.2: *) Fixed unfriendly behavior that str.encode encodes from in-memory represention of unicode object directly. Codecs now decode as default encoding before encoding str object. *) "-strict" flavored codecs are added. While main codecs include several tweaks to cope with wild compatibility issues, -strict codecs enable pedantic people live a standard life. *) SHIFT-JIS codec is now compatible with JapaneseCodecs' by default. - U+005C REVERSE SOLIDUS is mapped to SHIFT-JIS 0x5c. - U+007E TILDE is mapped to SHIFT-JIS 0x7e. - U+FF3C FULL-WIDTH REVERSE SOLIDUS is mapped to SHIFT-JIS 815f. *) EUC-JP codec is now compatible with JapaneseCodecs' by default. - U+00A5 YEN SIGN is mapped to EUC-JP 0x5c. (one way) - U+203E OVERLINE is mapped to EUC-JP 0x7e. (one way) *) Several aliases are added for compatibility. - ISO-2022-JP-1: ISO-2022-JP-EXT - BIG5: BIG5-TW - GB2312: EUCGB2312-CN Also what's new in iconvcodec 1.1.2: *) Fixed a bug that decoders' returning u'' not (u'', 0) when decoding empty string. [Tae-Wook Kang] *) Use libc's by default in linux. You can download CJKCodecs and iconvcodec from: http://cjkpython.i18n.org/ Thank you! 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