Reports

Here are a few resources for those who care about Standard C and C++:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14 -- ISO committee JTC1/SC22/WG14 is charged with standardizing programming language C. The current C Standard was issued in 1999 (hence the name C99) and amended through 2003. It is currently not being revised. The WG14 web site has copies of the two non-normative Technical Reports that have been approved -- TR18037 embedded C and TR19769 new character data types -- plus other TRs still in the works.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21 -- ISO committee JTC1/SC22/WG21 is charged with standardizing programming language C++. The current C++ Standard was issued in 1998 and amended through 2003. It is currently being revised. The WG21 web site has copies of the two non-normative Technical Reports that have been approved -- TR18015 performance and TR19768 Library TR1 -- plus other TRs still in the works and the current state of C++0x, the revised C++ Standard.

http://www.caravan.net/ec2plus/index.html -- EC++ is a subset of Standard C++ developed a decade ago by a consortium of mostly Japanese compiler vendors, to meet the particular needs of the embedded community. It is widely supported by C++ cross compilers in the embedded marketplace (almost all of whom use the Dinkum EC++ Library).

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html -- UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux. Much of the information is specific to Unix/Linux, as the name implies, but this web page also provides a good overview of Unicode encodings.