John, Does this set of IBM "globalization guidelines" web pages match any part(s) of the NLTC design guide you mentioned?
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/guidelines/outline.html Just curious if what I found there matches what you have. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 5:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sortlessness? Googling turns up the fact that the fundamental paper by René Haentjens, "Ordering universal character strings", is available at http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/vol5num3/vol5num3art4.txt Tony H was right to mention the work of the National Language Technical Center at IBM's Toronto Laboratory. (It is|was actually in North York, Ontario, a Toronto suburb.) I cherish my copies of its multivolume National Language Design Guide, and anyone who can find copies of them on the net should download them. Why the NLTC was killed off, notionally by IBM Canada, is unlikely ever to be fully understood. No one outside IBM is in any position to speculate about such things, and those inside it all have their own organizational political imperatives to defend. What is clear in the record is that it was a centre of excellence. Nowhere else, for example, have I seen other cogent treatments of the problems of treating cyrillic text embedded in roman text, roman text embedded ir arabic text, and the like. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
