Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsl!ry
From: ry@cbnewsl.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Supporting many human languages.
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.150417.28644@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 3 Jul 90 15:04:17 GMT
References: <1990Jul2.205752.2317@mmm.serc.3m.com> <3366@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Organization: AT&T UNIX Software Operation, Morristown, NJ
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In article <3366@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <1990Jul2.205752.2317@mmm.serc.3m.com>, us269574@mmm.SERC.3M.Com (Darryn J. Kozak) writes:
>> I need to support a software product to be used in different countries.
>Find a good technical bookshop and get the X/Open stuff.
>National(?) Language Support is covered by that, and the interface
>they recommend is supported by several UNIX systems (HP-UX, AIX, others).
>SVR4 is different, though.
>

Yes, SVR4 is different because in addition to european languages
and x/open conformance, we also support Asian languages which require
multibyte character handling.  If you're interested in handling
asian languages, I strongly suggest you look at SVR3/4.


Ry Schwark
ry@uso.att.com