ICU development team meeting Time: 10am-11am PST, 1pm-2pm EST Date: 2000-dec-14 Attendees: Yves Arrouye (RealNames) Ed Batutis (Lotus) Hyangmi Cho (Lotus) Mark Davis (IBM) Kouichi Izumi (Lotus) Steven Loomis (IBM) George Rhoten (IBM) Robert Sample (Lotus) Markus Scherer (IBM) Jim Snyder-Grant (Lotus) Raghuram Viswanadha (IBM) Vladimir Weinstein (IBM) Minutes taker: Markus Scherer Agenda items: 1. ICU 1.7 Release The ICU 1.7 release is ready to go with a final CVS tag today or early tomorrow and .zip/.tar/API docs online tomorrow 2. Lotus: collation data variants - ICU is being integrated into the next major release of Lotus Notes - Lotus adding collation data - Lotus/ICU working together on better Japanese dictionary sort - ICU 1.8 shall meet requirements - need UCA compliance - need to coordinate about regional variants - RealNames is not using collation - Mark: we are comparing collation results between ICU and Windows/MS Office - All details of collation design online in design document - Since taylored collation rules concentrate on letters, and our collation data is largely the same as UCA for letters, we do not expect big differences for common sorting cases - Other collation data sources: IBM "Green Book", locale repository, ICU, Java, Microsoft, ... - Mark: "no particular aura of invincibility for the Green Book" - Lotus: probably need two collations for German (dictionary/phone book) - Normal jitterbug for missing data? Include link to data (or data directly for short rules) - Hungarian has special wide/slender rules - Lotus will submit specifics to the mailing list - Mark: will have a switch for handling spaces as fourth-order differences, will handle Arabic Kashida(?!) - Mark: Could have API to set filter function for special cases, manipulating the incoming text stream (not the intermediate collation element stream) - Some collation libraries have special options like Win32: "ignore leading symbols", Lotus: ignore dash/single quote, ... 3. Lotus: mapping files for non-IBM codepages - ibm-5353 is not compatible with (the current) windows-1257 - need to verify non-IBM codepage mapping tables (and needs IBM-internal discussion about keeping track of non-IBM codepages in general) - Microsoft mapping tables generated early in 2000 on Windows 2000 (pre-sp1) are available on the public ICU site 4. Next meeting: Wednesday, 2001-jan-10, 10am PST/1pm EST