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:
    Draft proposal to encode 10 Latin letters for North American indigenous orthographies (2010-06-30)

Character encoding proposals submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee:
    Proposal to encode an External Link Sign (2006-08-01; Unicode document L2/06-268)
    Proposal to encode a Double Hyphen (2010-05-03; Unicode document L2/10-162)
    Proposal to encode the English Phonotypic Alphabet (EPA) (2010-07-12; Unicode doc. L2/10-229R)
    Proposal to encode a modifier letter used in French abbreviations (2010-07-13; Unicode doc. L2/10-230)
    Proposal to add Variation Sequences for Latin and Cyrillic letters (2010-08-05; Unicode doc. L2/10-280)

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)
    N3581: 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)
    N3587: Proposal to encode 10 Latin letters for pre-1921 Latvian orthography (2008-10-30,
        revised 2009-03-26)
    N3769: Proposal to encode an emoticon "Neutral Face" (2010-01-26)
    N3770: Proposal to encode two dashes required by the Chicago Manual of Style (2010-02-10)
    N3846: Proposal to encode two missing modifier letters for Extended IPA (2010-04-30)
    N3860: Proposal to encode two Letterlike Symbols for Canadian legal use (2010-06-11)

Character encoding proposals which are withdrawn, stalled, superseded, or rejected:
    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)
    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)
    N3588: Proposal to encode a Florin currency symbol (2009-04-06; not approved 2010-05-11)
    Additional notes on the Florin symbol (2010-05-03; Unicode document L2/10-163)

Other work:
    Towards a Unicode Encoding of Teuthonista
            (a presentation held on a CDFG / I DINAMLEX workshop at Vienna, 2008-11-05)
    N3785: Problems concerning the emoji symbol "U+1F471 Western Person" (2010-04-16)
    Was ist Unicode?
         (in German; a presentation held on the symposium "Teuthonista goes Unicode" at Passau, 2010-06-04)

Work of groups where I had participated:
    N3775: Proposal for encoding Georgian and Nuskhuri letters for Ossetian and Abkhaz (2010-02-17)
    CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) 16108:
        Functional Multilingual Extensions to European Keyboard Layouts (MEEK) (2010-03)

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)
    Test page for Orok letters "barred o with macron" (displaying Cyrillic letters with diacritical marks)

 Dipl. Inform.
Karl Pentzlin
  Marie-Eberth-
    Straße 5
  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:
2010-08-06