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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Internationalisation
Message-ID: <13716@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Aug 90 21:55:20 GMT
References: <3603@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <1911@islay.tcom.stc.co.uk> <1990Aug30.115608.3729@tsa.co.uk>
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In article <1990Aug30.115608.3729@tsa.co.uk> domo@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.