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From: wk@hpirs.HP.COM (Wayne Krone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Re: HP-UX Plug
Message-ID: <4760010@hpirs.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 88 01:47:05 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> / hpirs:comp.unix.wizards / rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) /  7:22 am  Mar  6, 1988 /
> 
>   While I agree that HP-UX is nice and it does have stuff from BSD
> it only passes SVVS/SVID for Unix System V.2.2 .  The current release
> of Sys V is at least V.3.1 and there have been big additions.  For example
> streams and support for International character systems.  HP does have
> variants of HP-UX for international character support but in a 
> proprietary and non-V.3.1 compatible fashion.  If you use their international
> scheme you get locked into their systems, losing vendor independence.

If vendor independence is what you are after, I suggest following the
guidelines published in the Internationalization section of the X/Open
Portability Guide.  The internationalization defined by X/Open was
derived from the HP Native Language Support (NLS) product and is now
available from many of the X/Open member companies, including HP and
AT&T.

Wayne Krone
Hewlett-Packard