Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!aussie!rex From: rex@aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Localization (4.4.2.1) Message-ID: <58.UUL1.3#5077@aussie.COM> Date: 3 Mar 91 02:09:24 GMT References: Organization: Journal of C Language Translation Lines: 29 > >>>>> On 18 Feb 91 14:28:28 GMT, rex@aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke) said: > Rex> PJ Plauger, ANSI C secretary and ISO C convenor, played a significant role ... > Not fair! What is the name of the book? When is it expected to be > available? When will we know the "reasonable cost" of the source? > > If the cost for the source is _really_ reasonable (i.e. inexpensive) I > could see a lot of non-implementors buying it and using it with various > "ANSI compliant" compilers from various vendors to ease porting. It's no > fun when two supposedly compliant compilers yield different behavior. > Getting locales right appears (to me) to be an especially tricky problem. While I've known for quite a while he was doing a portable library to be made available under license I was not aware until the week of my posting it was going to be documented and made available to the public as such. When I find out I shall try and remember to post the info here. Right now I don't know the answers and I'm just as interested as you are. Rex ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rex Jaeschke | Journal of C Language Translation | C Users Journal (703) 860-0091 | 2051 Swans Neck Way | DEC PROFESSIONAL rex@aussie.COM | Reston, Virginia 22091, USA | Programmers Journal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Convener of the Numerical C Extensions Group (NCEG) X3J11 member and US International Representative to ISO C (WG14) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------