- From: Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:24:06 -0800
- To: "John Wm. Wicks" <j_wicks@pacbell.net>, <www-international@w3.org>
- Cc: <raja_coe95@yahoo.com>
I would not read too much into that page. The TR was rejected as a standard because of the severe problems in quality and disagreements among countries. It shows little sign of doing better as a TR. Mark ————— Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς [For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr] http://www.macchiato.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wm. Wicks" <j_wicks@pacbell.net> To: <www-international@w3.org> Cc: <raja_coe95@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 09:28 Subject: Re: Standards for phone numbers, addresses, distance/weight/temperature units etc > Raja Raman wrote: > > > > >> Delivered-To: duerst@w3.mag.keio.ac.jp > >> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:05:57 -0500 (EST) > >> From: Raja Raman <raja_coe95@yahoo.com> > >> To: www-international@w3.org > >> Subject: [Moderator Action] Standards for phone numbers, addresses, > >> distance/weight/temperature units etc > >> > >> Hi All!! > >> > >> I'm sure I'm not tackling this for the first time. I have a web > >> application to create for an international audience. I'm looking for > >> the following standards, for personalizing the entry screens, > >> validating data and displaying in locale-specific ways. The items I'm > >> looking for are: > >> > >> - Standards for phone numbers (different formats for phone numbers > >> per country) > >> > >> - addresses (the structure for street, city, state, country and ZIP > >> code for each country) > >> > >> - distance (e.g. km being used in UK while miles being used in US) > >> > >> - weight (e.g. kg in UK v/s lb in US) > >> > >> - temperature (Centigrade in UK, Fahrenheit in US) > >> > >> - Other units (any other units that the group knows about that vary > >> with user's locale) > > > Hello Raja, > > I'm still rather surprised that "someone" hasn't put forth a XML schema > proposal for say Locale where you could define the entire set of > specific data in one place. With that said the most comprehensive set of > definitions I've ever run accross, in one place, is the set provided in > Nadine Kano's book on Internationalizing Windows 95. I stand corrected, > just went over to the ISO site and they have a working draft at the > following http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg20/docs/projects.html.en > > This spec doesn't outline the formats but at least its a start :) Check > I18nGurus.com as well as the Microsoft site > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/ and here's some more links to check > out... http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Globalization/ > > John > >
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