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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: source code for X/Open functions
Keywords: X/Open, locale, internationalisation, setlocale(), localisation
Message-ID: <13594@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 19:22:01 GMT
Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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The X/Open corporation defines several functions that aid in the devellopment
of localised applications. Of particular interest are the catopen(), catgets(),
catclose(), strcoll() and strxfrm() functions.

Now imagine yourself going through the XPG3 manuals, reading the descriptions
of these functions, and presenting them to your manager as the solution to all
evil monolingual problems. Now imagine yourself being asked to implement these
functions in your operating system.

While you laugh yourself off the chair, let me first state that writing these
functions is not such a difficult task. But in order to achieve full
compatibility with the description in the X/Open Portability Guide, it would
be preferable to obtain the source code for these functions from the X/Open
corporation. And there's no point reinventing the wheel.

If you know what the possibility of obtaining source code from either X/Open
or another company is, please contact me.

Valentin
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