Unicode Consortium announces Localization Interoperability Technical Committee

The Unicode Consortium announces a new technical committee, the Unicode Localization Interoperability Technical Committee. Localization of software information is a key part of the adoption of most software offerings in many countries. The purpose of the new committee is to ensure interoperable data interchange for critical localization-related assets, such as language segmentation, translation source strings, translated strings, and translation memories.

The initial focus of the Unicode Localization Interoperability (ULI) Technical Committee is on the improved interoperability of translation memories in the TMX format, segmentation rules that use the SRX format, and translation source strings and resulting translated strings that use the XLIFF format.

The ULI Technical Committee will establish profiles of use for TMX, SRX, and XLIFF. The committee will develop and publish specifications that document specific usage conventions that can be shared for interoperability. This will improve data interchange through more consistent implementations and will enhance the usefulness of these three standards.

For information on how to join the ULI effort and get involved in its work, contact the Unicode Consortium with the contact form (see http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html) and ask about the ULI.

To become a voting participant in the work of the ULI committee, join Unicode in one of the three voting categories of membership: Full, Institutional, or Supporting. See http://www.unicode.org/consortium/join.html .

For more details about the ULI, see: http://unicode.org/uli/

PRI #182: Proposed Update UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions

The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page:

http://www.unicode.org/review/pri181/

Review period for this item closes on May 6, 2011.

Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. Briefly, the new issue is:

PRI #182: Proposed Update UTS #18

A proposed update for UTS #18, Unicode Regular Expressions has been posted by the Unicode Consortium at http://unicode.org/reports/tr18/proposed.html . Feedback on this draft is welcome, especially from regular expression engine developers and users. The main changes in this update include:

* Changes in conformance clauses for PRI #179, Changes to Unicode Regular Expression Guidelines
http://www.unicode.org/review/pri179/
* A new conformance clause for Level 2: RL2.7 Full Properties.
* Simplification of the definition of \p{blank} in Annex C Compatibility Properties.
* Clarifications of various conformance issues.

The review period for feedback closes on May 6, 2011; feedback on the document will be reviewed at the May Unicode Technical Committee meeting.

If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:

http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

If you wish to discuss issues on the Unicode forum or the Unicode mail list, then please use the following links to subscribe (if necessary). Please be aware that discussion comments on the Unicode mail list are not automatically recorded as input to the UTC. You must use the reporting link above to generate comments for UTC consideration.

http://www.unicode.org/forum/
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html

PRI 181: Changing General Category of Twelve Characters

The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public review and comment. Details are on the following web page:

http://www.unicode.org/review/pri181/

Review periods for the new items close on May 2, 2011.

Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents. Briefly, the new issue is:

The UTC has decided to change the general category of twelve characters, and is requesting public feedback on the proposed changes. Details of the proposal and the list of affected characters are in the background document: http://www.unicode.org/review/pri181/

If you have comments for official UTC consideration, please post them by submitting your comments through our feedback & reporting page:

http://www.unicode.org/reporting.html

If you wish to discuss issues on the Unicode forum or the Unicode mail list, then please use the following links to subscribe (if necessary). Please be aware that discussion comments on the Unicode mail list are not automatically recorded as input to the UTC. You must use the reporting link above to generate comments for UTC consideration.

http://www.unicode.org/forum/
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html