[open-cobol-list] Japanese opensource COBOL 1.2J

[kazuyoshi . tanaka . zs]

Dear OpenCOBOL experts,

Since the time I wrote here before, Japanese group in OSS consortium
had been working on development of localized branch of OpenCOBOL.
Though it took more days than our plan, we released the first version
of it. 

Thanks to Mr. Federico Priolo and the follow-up by Mr. Simon 'human'
Sobisch, brief information such as summary of our changes, contact
address, etc. are available at opencobol.org's web forum article.

http://www.opencobol.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1490&forum=1&post_id=7690

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

Notice: Some changes are useful only in Japan (such as default
currency sign '\') and/or incompartible with original OpenCOBOL. They
may cause errors or unexcpected behavior with valid COBOL codes for
original OpenCOBOL 1.1 pre-release.

We are very glad to reply your comments.

And if some of the items in our changelog could be also useful in main
 line (CE?) development, I'm willing to provide more information, 
individual patch, etc.

Regards,

Kazuyoshi Tanaka
Open COBOL solution group, OSS consortium.