tlug: Add info-Dec 12 meeting

[Alberto Tomita <atomita@example.com>]

Some additional information:

*    TLUG Meeting (Dec 12, 12:30)

*    Place: *NEW VENUE*
            Temple University
            2-8-12 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo
            (map at http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps.html)

(information provided by Stephen Carter)
"The room is very easy to find.  TUJ is just an office building, really, and
 you get off the elevator on a floor, and walk to the room number--there are
 a few tricky things there, but not that we'll need to worry about."

"The room is on the second floor--go out of the elevator, turn left. At the
 intersection with the main hall, turn right.  And you're there.  It's
 nothing like a "real" campus--makes it easy to find things, but doesn't do
 much for the university, hallowd halls of learning atmousphere."

*    Talk: Linux i18n/Japanization
(information provided by Stephen Turnbull and Scott Stone)

"Steve Turnbull (U. Tsukuba), Scott Stone (PHT), and Koji Ashida (PHT)
 will discuss issues regarding Japanization of Linux.  Scott and Steve
 will be biased toward a Nihongo-capable English environment, rather
 than a full Nihongo environment.  Koji is happier in the English-capable
 Nihongo environment."

Steve will discuss theoretical issues, protocols, and standards,
including

 o Alphabet soup:  what are L10N, I18N, and M17N?  Who cares?  Why?
 o The kernel:  8-bit clean, file system safe
 o Text input, output, and processing:  character sets, encodings,
   fonts, input methods, and all that - the framework
 o Unicode and UCS:  what they can handle, what they can't
 o Internet messages and content negotiation, incliding MIME, HTTP,
   and ISO-2022
 o The POSIX locale model and GNU gettext

Scott will describe the status of toolkits and applications for
internationalization and Japanese environments, including

 o System and user configuration
 o Practical aspects of the locale database
 o Languages and toolkits: gcc, Perl, Python; Tcl/Tk, PerlTk, gtk+; more!
 o Font systems and libraries:  VFlib and the TrueType for X11 facilities
 o Japanized applications: Pine, vi, ghostscript, muriyari Netscape
 o etc....

"Koji will talk about his experience in porting Applixware to the
 Japanese environment. Steve will (if time permits) talk about the
 future: multilingualization, using Mule as an example."

See you there.
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Next Technical Meeting: 12 December, 12:30 at Temple Univ. Japan
*NEW LOCATION* a map is available at http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps.html
Next Nomikai: 15 January 1999, 19:30 Tengu TokyoEkiMae 03-3275-3691
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