The Japan Unix Society sponsored its 12th Unix Symposium in Osaka earlier this month, attracting over 200 Unix researchers and corporate software developers to hear presentations by AT&T Unix Pacific on System V Release 3.2, research on the X Window System, details the Japanisation effort on Adobe Systems’ Postscript page description language, user interfaces and Streams: an outstanding feature of the symposium was the presence of a group of gaijin (that’s their fairly rude word for non-Japanese people), from various US manufacturers – Apollo Computer, DEC, IBM, Hewlett Packard Co, Sun Microsystems, – and Bull from France, plus a participant each from China and Taiwan; these people had earli-er participated in a Unix Internationalisation Workshop under the joint auspices of /usr/group, and at the meeting, solutions were proposed for localisation strategies, kernel internationalisation, and the handling of different collation sequences through use of setlocale and a new tool for defining collation sequences; the results of the meetings will go to the IEEE Posix committee for inclusion in drafts for worldwide comment.
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