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[Unicode Implementer's Workshop announcement]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
Fri Jan 31 10:04:30 1992
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 09:59:14 EST
From: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
To: developers@MIT.EDU
Cc: jwl@eagle.mit.edu (Joanne Larrabee)
FYI
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 08:02:55 EST
From: SCHEIN@TOROLAB5.VNET.IBM.COM
To: unicored@Sun.COM
Subject: Unicode Implementer's Workshop announcement
The Unicode Consortium will sponsor a Unicode Implementer's Workshop.
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Target Audience:
Technical writers, managers or engineers, developing or considering
development of software supporting Unicode.
Date:
March 12 and 13, 1992
Location:
Digital, Merrimack Conference center in New Hampshire, USA
Hotel information and directions are attached.
Content:
March 12 will feature a full day professionally developed lecture
course covering the Goals and Architecture of the Unicode Standard,
as well as how its implementation addresses character coding
problems that exist in todays multi-code page environments or
tomorrows multi-lingual systems.
A separate demonstration room will provide a look at working Unicode
systems and prototypes
March 13 will feature seminar style talks on implementation aspects
of Unicode, such as converting existing code, compression, sorting,
relation of Unicode to other standards, impact on computer languages
and locales, as well as other topics.
Course Material:
A full set of notes will be provided for the course. Also included
will be the full text of papers accompanying the talks. A special
updated Implementer's version of the Unicode Standard, including
diskettes with character code conversion tables, will be
distributed to registered participants
Registration:
A registration form is attached.
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------------------ Attachment 1 - Agenda --------------------------------
The March 13 tentative agenda and brief introduction for each item:
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome
Gayn Winters - Digital, Technical Director
Ted Sasala - IBM, Director of NLS
Mark Davis - Unicode Inc., President
9:00 - 9:30 Unicode and ISO 10646
Is there one universal code standard or two? What is the status
of the ISO standard? Will a product which implements Unicode
be conformant to the ISO 10646? Isai Scheinberg from IBM Canada will
address these and similar questions.
9:30 - 10:30 Program Migration to Unicode
What needs to be done to convert existing C programs to support
Unicode? Asmus Freytag will describe Microsoft experience with
conversion of Windows NT programs.
10:30 - 11:30 Non-spacing marks
Non spacing marks (going also by the name of "floating diacritics")
is one of the areas which scares implementers of the Unicode
standard. Mark Davis from Apple will describe the strategies for
handling of non spacing marks in various types of character
processing.
11:30 - 12:15 Compression of Unicode data
Unicode characters are two bytes each. American and European
developers invariably protest this at first, since this doubles
the character portion of any text data. Greh Hullender will share
Go Corporation experience in compressing Unicode text.
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:00 Unicode in PL/I
PL/I is a programming language widely used on mainframe computers.
The new version of PL/I which will run on OS/2 plans to support
Unicode as a new character data type as well as an encoding for the
program source. J.G. Van Stee from IBM will outline the design
considerations that PL/I development team is faced with.
14:00 - 14:45 Code Set conversions
Unicode is the wave of the future. Unfortunately most of our
operating systems are still committed to supporting the past.
So until Unicode sweeps the planet there will be a need to convert
billions of characters from Unicode to current code sets and back.
Lloyd Honomichl will discuss Novell approach to optimizing the
memory needed for storing conversion tables.
14:45 - 15:30 Collate in Unicode
Now that Unicode defines all of the world's characters in one place,
how do we sort a truly multilingual data? Pamela Ottaviano from
Microsoft and Catherine Wissink from University of Washington will
describe their proposal.
15:30 - 16:15 Unicode Model and the XPG/POSIX locale model
The Locale model developed by various standards and users groups
(X/Open consortium, Uniforum, and other) is based on the notion of
code set independence. The *single code* code set assumption is
central to the Unicode model. Eamon MacDermott from Digital will
discuss the issues and the directions for the coexistence or
convergence of these two models.
16:15 - 16:45 Unicode and ISO Font Interchange Model
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has recently
adopted a standard for font interchange. John McConell from Digital
will describe the differences between the ISO 9541 font model and
Unicode, the problems these differences cause application developers
and practical ways to overcome some of these problems.
16:45 - 17:30 Unicode and OSI standrads
Unicode is on its way to become an international standard. Other
ISO standards which are being reviewed to include I18N features
plan to include support for the universal code. Jurgen Bettels
and Masami Hasegawa from Digital will discuss the plans for Abstract
Syntax Notation (ASN.1) the Directory Services (X.500) and the
Message Handling System (X.400).
------------------ Attachment 2 - Hotel information ---------------------
The Unicode Workshop has reserved a block of rooms at a special rate
of $45
per night plus 8% tax at the Best Western Merrimack Inn, Merrimack
NH. Make
your reservations directly with the hotel. When making a reservation
say
that you are attending the Unicode Workshop. The block of rooms and
the
special rate is guaranteed until February 20. The Merrimack Inn
offers
complementary transportation to and from Manchester Airport (12
miles)
and
to and from the Digital Conference center (2 miles). Transportation
to and
from Logan Airport in Boston (55 miles) can be arranged for a fee.
USA Today newspaper delivered to every guest room each weekday
morning.
Complimentary hors d'oeuvres served Mon.- Fri. 5-7 p.m. in Players
Lounge.
Executive Travel Center Club open Mon. - Thurs. 5-10 p.m.
MERRIMACK INN (FORMERLY HILTON)
Exit 11 Everett Turnpike Tel (603)424-6181 / (800)922-3477
MERRIMACK, NH 03054 Fax (603)424-1668
USA
------------------ Attachment 3 - Directions ----------------------------
From Logan Airport to Hotel:
Exit airport, follow signs to Callahan Tunnel I-93 North.
Proceed through tunnel take second right immediately outside tunnel
(expressway North I-93).
Follow I-93 North for approximately 5 miles, take exit for I-95 South
(Route
128 South), signed for Woburn, Waltham.
Follow I-95 (Route 128 South) for approximately 5 miles, take exit
signed
for Nashua (Route 3 North).
Follow Route 3 North into New Hampshire all the way to exit 11,
Everett
Turnpike. Exit in lane 1. There is a $0.50 toll. Turn left at the
bottom of
the exit ramp. Proceed to street light, turn right at Burger King.
Take next
right into the hotel parking lot.
The journey is approximately 55 miles. Driving yourself in rush hour
is not
recommended as it can take an hour to get through the tunnel.
Consider
taking a limo as their drivers know back routes avoiding the tunnel.
Limo
service can be arrange via the hotel.
From Manchester Airport (NH) to the hotel.
Take a right out of the airport onto Brown Ave. Take a left at 2nd
set of
lights. Follow signs to 101 East. Take Nashua/Boston exit onto route
3
South, Everett Turnpike. Go through tolls ($0.75). Take exit 11, go
through
lights, take first right. You will see the Best Western sign.
From hotel to Digital
Exit to right from hotel parking lot, at lights take right. Proceed
approximately 4 miles to DEC on left.
From points south to Digital
Take route 3 (see directions from Logan) to exit 10 ($0.50 toll).
Take a
left at the end of the toll ramp, then a left at the second set of
lights.
You are on Digital Drive. Follow the signs to MKO2.
------------------ Attachment 4 - Registration --------------------------
Unicode Workshop Registration
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The conference will be held in the Wellington Room, Digital Equipment
Corporation MKO2, Merrimack, NH.
Please complete and return this form to Tim Greenwood. There is no
charge for the workshop but we need to keep track of numbers. You will
receive a response to the registration.
Return the form to
greenwood@i18n.enet.dec.com
or, if you do not have access to email
Tim Greenwood
Digital Equipment Corporation ZKO2-1/O07
110 Spit Brook Road, Nashua, NH 03062-2698
Tel: 603-881-0575
Fax: 603-881-0120
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