Tatsuo Kobayashi

Kobayashi-san's work focuses on technologies related to coded character sets and digital documentation. He has served as a board member of Unicode Consortium, a member of the IPSJ/ITSCJ Standardization Committee for Coded Character Sets, the JSA Coded Character Set Committee, and the CICC Multilingual Information Environment Committee.

Session: ePUB 3.0: The next generation e-book standard based on HTML5 and CSS3

The ePUB format is a standard for formatting electronic books, or e-books. The ePUB Technical Committee is currently working on the next version, ePUB 3.0, which is based on HTML5, CSS, and SVG, and is designed to be compatible with major browser engines. In this session, a panel of experts who are closely involved with ePUB 3.0 will discuss the format, and some of the problems and challenges involved in developing it. The session will pay special attention to issues of language support in ePUB, with a particular focus on providing vertical-text support — important for e-books in Japan, Taiwan, and China. These issues are currently being addressed by the Extended Global Language Support (EGLS) subgroup of the ePUB Technical Committee.