VERSION 1.8 LIST OF GROUPS WORKING ON CHARACTER SETS AND CODING 1995-01-31 J. W. van Wingen The following contains a list of groups that are working on character sets or subjects in their field that are related to character issues. STANDARDS DEVELOPING BODIES International: ISO/IEC JTC1 Information Technology SC2 Coded Character sets Chairman: S. G. Lindberg, IBM, Sweden Secretary: J. van den Beld, ECMA, Geneva CH SC2/WG2 Multiple octet coded character sets Convener: M. Ksar, Hewlett-Packard, USA Project editor: M. Davis, Taligent, USA SC2/WG3 7-bit and 8-bit coded character sets, Code extension techniques, Control functions Convener: J. van den Beld, ECMA, Geneva CH ISO TC46 Information and Documentation SC4 Computer applications SC4/WG1 Character sets Convener: R. K. Barry ITU-T International Telecommunications Union (former CCITT) Study group 8 Contact: S. Fuchs, Bezeq, Israel CEN The Joint European Standards Institute TC 304 Character Set Technology Secretary: Thorvardur Olafsson, SPRI, Iceland ECMA European Computer Manufacturers Association TC1 Codes Contact: J. van den Beld, ECMA, Geneva CH EWOS European Workshop on Open Systems Study group Character Codes Contact: C. Makemson, UK National Bodies (with developments of their own): China: CAS Contact: Li Yunqin, CAS Japan: JISC Contact: T. Katoh, Toppan Printing Korea: KBS Contact: Kyongsok Kim, Pusan Univ. India: BIS Contact: N. Subramanian, CDAC Thailand .. Contact: Trin Transetthi UK: BSI Contact: J. B. Paterson USA: ANSI American National Standards Institute X3L2 Contact: E. Hart, JHU, USA USSR: GOST Contact: ? Manufacturers: IBM: Contact: S. G. Lindberg, Sweden P. W. Ford, NLTC, Toronto, Canada DEC: Contact: J. Bettels, CH Unisys: Contact: G. Bernard, France H-P: Contact: M. Ksar, USA Xerox: Contact: J. Becker, USA Apple: Contact: ????? Taligent: Contact: M. Davis, USA Microsoft: Contact: M. Suignard, france Siemens: Contact: I. Sebestyen, BRD Bull: Contact: ????? ICL: Contact: ????? &USER GROUPS IBM: GUIDE (US):Contact: ? SHARE (US): Software Globalization Committee, formerly ASCII/EBCDIC and International Language Support Committee Contact: E. Hart, USA GUIDE/SHARE Europe: National Language Committee Contact: J-P Cabani/e, France DEC: DECUS: Contact: ? RELATED ACTIVITIES Standards: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18 Document Processing and related communication SC18/WG8 Text Description and Processing Languages Convener: J. D. Mason, Oak Ridge USA SWG Fonts Convener: A. Griffee, IBM, USA SWG SGML Convener: C. J. Goldfarb, USA SWG SPDL Convener: S. Strasen, Xerox, USA SC18/WG9 User-system Interfaces and Symbols Convener: K. Holdaway, IBM USA SWG on Keyboards Convener: Y. Neuville, M of Ed., France ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 Programming Languages, their environments and system software interfaces SC22/WG11 Bindings (incl. Lang. Indep. Datatypes) Convener: W. Wakker, ACE, NL SC22/WG15 POSIX (incl. character issues: I18n) Contact: K. Simonsen, DK SC22/WG20 Internationalisation (incl. character issues) Convener: A. Winkler, Unisys, USA ISO TC46 Information and Documentation SC2 Conversion of written languages Chairman: J. Meyriat, ADBS, France Independent groups: AFII: (Association for Font Information interchange): Contact: A. Griffee, IBM, USA Kermit: Contact: F. da Cruz, Chr. M. Gianone, Columbia U USA TeX: Contact: B. Beeton, Editor TUGBOAT, AMS USA Rus-TeX: Contact: D. Vulis, for Cyrillic, USA TEI: The Text Encoding Initiative: Contact: M. Sperberg-McQueen, USA Contact: H. Gaylord, RUG, NL (for character issues) UNICODE: Contact: A. Freytag, USA TERENA (exRARE) (Trans-European Research Networks Association) Working Group on Character Sets and Internationalization of the Networks Services Contact: B. Jerman-Blazic, Slovenia XPLOR: (User group of Large Printer Users) Contact: L. Bruzelius, Sweden &PUBLIC LISTSERVERS ISO8859@JHUVM ASCII/EBCDIC character set related issues Subscription to LISTSERV@JHUVM Contact: E. Hart, USA ISO10646@JHUVM Multi-byte Code Issues Subscription to LISTSERV@JHUVM Contact: E. Hart, USA POLYGLOT: Electronic journal for multi-language computing (discontinued?) Contact: S. Deerwester E-MAIL ADDRESSES (success not guaranteed) # : presumably obsolete Randall K. Barry rbar@loc.gov Joseph Becker Becker.osbunorth@Xerox.COM Barbara Beeton BNB@MATH.AMS.COM J%urgen Bettels jbettels@WADD.ENET.DEC.COM Jan van den Beld jan.van-den-beld@ECMA.CH Frank da Cruz fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu Klaus Daube # KDA%SEAS@LIV.AC.UK Scott Deerwester scott@tira.uchicago.edu Miles Ellis # CTCMILES@VAX.OX.AC.UK Phil Ford pford@vnet.ibm.com Harry Gaylord GALIARD@gufalet.let.rug.nl Christine M Gianone cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu Borka Jerman-Blazic jerman-blazic@ijs.si Edwin Hart Edwin.Hart@jhuapl.edu Michael Sperberg-McQueen U35395@UICVM.BITNET Unicode, Inc. Unicode-Inc@unicode.org Dimitri Vulis # DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET Johan van Wingen PRECAL@rulmvs.LeidenUniv.nl Retired (but often still active): Klaus Appel W. F. Bohn J. Friemelt Edwin Smura Eiiti Wada