ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC34 N0111

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34/WG2 N23

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TITLE: Response to the Final AFII Liaison Statement concerning ISO/IEC 10036
SOURCE: Y. Komachi
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STATUS: Document for SC34 meeting in Philadelphia
ACTION: For information
DATE: 1999-11-29
DISTRIBUTION: SC34 and Liaisons
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REPLY TO: Dr. James David Mason
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Response to the Final AFII Liaison Statement concerning ISO/IEC 10036

The proposed topic should be discussed in the separate issues: glyph registration and ISO/IEC 10036.

1. Glyph Registration

Being independent of the volume increase in Unicode or ISO/IEC 10646, the concept of glyph and its registration are valid and meaningful. East Asian countries, in particular, have actually a strong requirement for registration of their glyphs.

A trade organization will not surely provide fund for glyph registration. The future registration of glyphs should be carried out as a full volunteer work supported by a semi-automatic procedure.

Instead of AFII or Unicode consortium, such a registration activity could be taken by a Japanese organization which has an interest in glyph registration.

2. ISO/IEC 10036

ISO/IEC 10036 should not be discussed from only the glyph registration's point of view. The standard specifies the registration of objects:

  • glyphs
  • glyph collections
  • font attribute sets
  • glyph index maps
  • font reference font specifications

The related standards such as ISO/IEC 9541, ISO/IEC 9070 and ISO/IEC 10180 refer to ISO/IEC 10036. The ISO/IEC 10036 is worth while being in the SC34 standards architecture.

Therefore ISO/IEC 10036 should be confirmed still in the forthcoming periodic review of the standard.