Free Standards Group
LI18NUX Project
LI18NUX 2000
Globalization Specification

LI18NUX SPEC 2000 Conformance

WAIVER CONDITIONS
 Listed conformance items below, from the LI18NUX 2000 Globalization Specification 1.0 and the Amendment 2, are waived for the certification program referenced below.

 
Conformance Program
Conformance Program Name : 
 LI18NUX SPEC 2000 Conformance Pilot Program (Spec2K PilotProgram)
Specification Conformance : 
  • LI18NUX 2000 Globalization Specification 1.0 
  • Amendment 2 of the LI18NUX 2000 Globalization Specification 1.0

 
Waiver Principles
Category
Principles
A1
 Impossible to fix due to external dependencies.
A2
 Impossible to fix due to shortcoming of Standard API.
B
 External specifications referenced in the LI18NUX specification are unstable or evolving.
Principles C,D,E are only applicable to the pilot program.
C
 No conforming opensource implementation at the moment. After
the pilot program, conforming opensource implementation will exist or
the requirement will be removed from the specification.
D
 Known problems in opensource implementation. After the pilot
program, fixes will exist or the requirement will be removed from the
specification. 
E
 Does not significantly affect application portability or usability.

 
Waived Conformance Items
Waiver Category
Waived TestSuite Assertion ID:#
Section
in the Specification
Note
A1.
Impossible to fix due to external dependencies.		      
A2.
Impossible to fix due to shortcoming of Standard API.		 shell:8,9.
tr:4,5,7,11-13,17-19.
egrep-re:6,7.
grep-re:6,7.
sed-re:9,10.
awk-re:8,9.
find:9.		 4. Shell and Utilities  
B. 
External
specifications referenced in the LI18NUX specification are
unstable or evolving. 		 shell:11.
at:1,2.
cal:1,2.
cpio-dt:1.
ls-dt:1.
tar-dt:1.
time:1.
cpio-fh:6.
find:12.
ps:1.		 4. Shell and Utilities  
C. 
No conforming opensource implementation at the moment. After
the pilot program, conforming opensource implementation will exist or
the requirement will be removed from the specification. 		 expand:1.
nm:1.
sort:3,8-16,19,24-33,35,40-48.
tr:1-3,6,8-10,14-16.
unexpand:1.
cpio-fh:5,7.
more:1-46.
ed:1.		 4. Shell and Utilities  
D. 
Known problems in opensource implementation. After the pilot
program, fixes will exist or the requirement will be removed from the
specification. 		 wctomb:2.
wcstombs:3.
wcrtomb:2.
wcsrtombs:3.
fgetws:2.
ungetwc:5,6.
putwc:2.
putwchar:2.
fputwc:2.
fputws:2.
wscanf:15-18.
fwscanf:15-18.
swscanf:15-18.
swprintf:50.
vswprintf:50.
scanf:2-5.
fscanf:2-5.
sscanf:2-5.
catopen:2.
nl_langinfo:58,59.
strptime:19,21,31,33-35,38,39,41,42.
regexec:8.		 3. Base Libraries  
diff:2,4.
pr:1,4.
sed-tp:6.
wc:2.		 4. Shell and Utilities  
E. 
Does not significantly affect application portability or usability. 		 catclose:2. 3. Base Libraries  
localedef:3,4. 4. Shell and Utilities  
Reference Test Assertion:  The LI18NUX2000 TestSuite for Level 1 (July 25th)
http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/testsuites/assertion/index.html

*
 

ANNEX

Section 1  Font Availability

The font availability beyond the character repertoire listed below is not required.

List of available fonts
 
  • BASIC LATIN
  • LATIN-1 SUPPLEMENT
  • LATIN EXTENDED-A
  • BASIC GREEK
  • BASIC GEORGIAN
  • LATIN EXTENDED ADDITIONAL
  • GREEK EXTENDED
  • SUPERSCRIPTS AND SUBSCRIPTS
  • MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS
  • OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION
  • BOX DRAWING
  • BOX ELEMENTS
  • HIRAGANA
  • KATAKANA
  • CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPHS
  • CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPHS
  • CJK COMPATIBILITY FORMS
  • HACompletely no fontUL EXTENDED


 
  • LATIN EXTENDED-B
  • IPA EXTENSIONS
  • SPACICompletely no font MODIFIERS LETTER
  • GREEK SYMBOLS AND COPTIC
  • CYRILLIC
  • ARMENIAN
  • GENERAL PUNCTUATION
  • CURRENCY SYMBOLS
  • LETTERLIKE SYMBOLS
  • NUMBER FORMS
  • ARROWS
  • MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL
  • CONTROL PICTURES
  • GEOMETRIC SHAPES
  • MISCELLANEOUS SYMBOLS
  • CJK SYMBOLS AND PUNCTUATION
  • BOPOMOFO
  • ENCLOSED CJK LETTERS AND MONTHS
  • CJK COMPATIBILITY
  • HALFWIDTH AND FULLWIDTH FORMS
* We have not yet found any open source or free fonts that support whole characters included in the character repertoires listed in the right column, therefore the conformity of the fonts availabilty for those repertores are also waived.

Document # Cert-008-R02A
Approved  Aug. 8th, 2001 Update  Oct. 25th, 2001
LI18NUX Certification Center
LI18NUX Project / Free Standards Group
Copyright 2001 LI18NUX / Free Standards Group