CEN/TC304/WG2 N____
Date: 1997-01-31

Title: Report on TC304/WG2 (Cultural Elements)

Source: Michael Everson
Status: For action in TC304

There have been several meetings of WG2 since the last TC304 meeting in Copenhagen:

Wien, 1996-09-11 Joint meeting with TC304/WG1 and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG2
Wien, 1996-09-12
London, 1997-01-29, 1997-01-30

Project 2.1 -- Registration of Cultural Elements
Fasttracking has stalled somewhat because Danish Standards has not yet transposed the ENV. The ISO RA will have to be appointed according to ISO procedures; the CEN appointment is not sufficient.

Project 2.2 -- Cultural Elements
A good deal of progress on the draft locales has been made -- there are 165 drafts available! A draft of the CR was made available after the meeting.

Project 11 -- Natural languages
Immense response to the posting of the 4th draft on the WWW after the Vienna meeting has yielded excellent responses to the data. WG3 comments this meeting have improved the structure of the draft in general and the appendices in particular. P11 should be ready for TC-enquiry before the next meeting of TC304.

Project 17 -- European default locale
Most outstanding issues are solved, some questions regarding the Euro and ECU currency have arisen but comments are expected to address this during the public enquiry.

Project 22 -- European Keyboards
No draft is yet available. Progress on the WG2 e-mail list is expected with input especially from Finland, Norway, Sweden, and France.

Resolutions of WG2
WG2 resolves that copyright to P11 shall rest jointly with the editor and CEN.

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