Internationalisation
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Fri Aug 31 07:55:20 AEST 1990
In article <1990Aug30.115608.3729 at tsa.co.uk> domo at tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
> 5. To a first approximation, the internationalization work of two
> organizations forms the basis of moves towards international
> standards in the area of C and POSIX. These organizations are
> X/Open and UniForum (formerly /usr/group).
Actually, while these organizations have influenced UNIX, the C hooks
for internationalization were hammered out specially in unofficial
working groups of interested parties and are for the most part not
based on previously published specifications.
> The published POSIX and C standards (ANSI/IEEE Std.1003.:1988 and
> ANSI Std. X3.159-1989 respectively) currently embody fairly minimal
> internationalization features. Future revisions will have more to
> say on the topic.
Not necessarily true. The ISO C standard may eventually have an addendum
that specifies additional internationization-related features, however.
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