Work on keyboards:
    Vorschlag für eine Erweiterung der deutschen Standardtastatur
        (in German: Proposal for an Extension of the German Standard Keyboard, 2009-09-13)
    The Five Scripts Keyboard (draft)
    Europatastatur software (in German)
   The "Europatastatur" –  an Example of a Multilingual Keyboard Design
        (a presentation held on a CDFG workshop at Brussels, 2007-06-12)
    An alternative to the current ISO/IEC 9995-3
        (presented 2008-09-08 at the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35/WG2 meeting in Naples, resulting in a resolution
          to initiate a new work item "ISO/IEC 9995-9: Multilingual, multiscript keyboard group layouts")
    Information about the Revision of ISO/IEC 9995-3  (2008-10-16, revised 2009-09-16)
    Multilingual, Multiscript Keyboard Group Layouts (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35/WG1:
        Preparatory work done prior to the NP proposal on ISO/IEC 9995-9; 2009-02-19)

Ongoing work on character encoding and Unicode:
    Proposal to encode three combining diacritical marks for Low German dialect writing (Draft, 2008-01-08)
    Encoding of national flags (2008-09-08, Unicode document L2/08-305)
    Towards a Unicode Encoding of Teuthonista
        (a presentation held on a CDFG / I DINAMLEX workshop at Vienna, 2008-11-05)

Character encoding proposals submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee:
    Proposal to encode an External Link Sign (2006-08-01)
    Proposal to encode a combining diacritical mark for Low German dialect writing (2008-10-25)
    Proposal to disunify Zhuang tone letters from their Cyrillic lookalikes (2008-10-26)
    Proposal to encode 10 Latin letters for pre-1921 Latvian orthography (2008-10-30, revised 2009-03-26)
    Proposal to encode four Latin letters for Jaŋalif (2008-11-03, revised 2009-03-16
        co-authored with Ilya Yevlampiev, partially accepted: letters N/n with descender)
    Proposal to encode a Florin currency symbol (2009-04-06)

Accepted proposals for character encoding in Unicode (on the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2 website):
    N3514: Proposal to encode a Soccer Ball symbol (2008-04-02)
    N3565: Proposal to encode two heavy low quotes for German in the UCS Dingbats block (2009-01-15)
    N3579: Proposal to encode a German trademark symbol (2009-02-27)

Test pages:
    əɛ.net (Test page with special Latin letters in its domain name and within its internal links)
    Test page for "Rheinische Dokumenta" (a special German dialect writing system; in German)

Karl Pentzlin
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  86956 Schongau
Germany

+49 8861 694 69 15
karl (аt) pentzlin.com

Affiliations:
AC&S Analysis GmbH 
DIN NA 043-01-35-01 GAK
DIN NA 043-01-29-01
DIN NA 152-06-08 AA
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35/WG1
Unicode Consortium
MEEK

Last  modified:
2009-09-16