From brannon@iso.ch Wed May 16 15:27:54 2001 Received: from isosun22.iso.ch (isosun22.iso.ch [138.81.11.17]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA52488 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:27:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from brannon@iso.ch) Received: from BRANNONK ([138.81.6.62]) by isosun22.iso.ch (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDFK2T00.I8N; Wed, 16 May 2001 15:28:05 +0200 Message-ID: <009201c0de0c$09ab29c0$3e06518a@cs.w2k.iso.ch> Reply-To: "brannon" From: "Keith Brannon" To: "Matthew Deane" , "'SC 22 Distribution List'" References: <200105152013.WAA48064@dkuug.dk> Subject: Re: (SC22docs.1131) SC 22 N 3235 - Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3206 Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:28:04 +0200 Organization: ISO MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Please circulate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Deane" To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:13 PM Subject: (SC22docs.1131) SC 22 N 3235 - Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3206 > ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 > Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces > Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) > > ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3235 > > TITLE: > Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3206, Letter Ballot on POSIX Locale for > Registration with ISO/IEC 15897 > > DATE ASSIGNED: > 2001-05-15 > > SOURCE: > Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 > > BACKWARD POINTER: > N/A > > DOCUMENT TYPE: > Summary of Voting > > PROJECT NUMBER: > 22.15897 > > STATUS: > The results of this ballot are sent to SC 22/WG 20 for resolution of the > comments and appropriate action. > > ACTION IDENTIFIER: > FYI > > DUE DATE: > N/A > > DISTRIBUTION: > Text > > CROSS REFERENCE: > N3206 > > DISTRIBUTION FORM: > Def > > > Address reply to: > ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat > Matt Deane > ANSI > 25 West 43rd Street > New York, NY 10036 > Telephone: (212) 642-4992 > Fax: (212) 840-2298 > Email: mdeane@ansi.org > > _______ end of title page; beginning of summary ______________ > > SUMMARY OF VOTING ON > > > Letter Ballot Reference No: SC22 N3206 > Circulated by: JTC 1/SC22 > Circulation Date: 2001-02-16 > Closing Date: 2001-04-16 > > SUBJECT: Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3206, Letter Ballot on POSIX Locale > for Registration with ISO/IEC 15897 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The following responses have been received on the subject of approval: > > > "P" Members supporting approval without comment > > 7 (Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Russian Federation, > UK) > > "P" Members supporting approval with comments > > 2 (Netherlands, USA) > > "P" Members not supporting approval > > 0 > > "P" Members abstaining > > 1 (France) > > "P" Members not voting > > 11 (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Egypt, Finland, Japan, Norway, Romania, > Slovenia, Ukraine) > > > ___________ end of summary, beginning on NB comments _____________ > > > Netherlands > NEN (the Dutch NB) supports the registration of N3206 as the > POSIX locale with the following comments: > > - differences between the (text of) the POSIX locale and the > C locale may cause confusion, and should therefore be eliminated. > As the POSIX locale is part of ISO 9945, and hence cannot easily > be changed, it is recommended to make the C locale identical to > the POSIX locale. > - once the POSIX locale is registered, there is no need to maintain > two versions of this specification; hence, WG15 is recommended to > remove, at the earliest possibility, the text of the POSIX locale > from ISO 9945. > - once the POSIX locale is removed from the ISO 9945 standard, WG15 > and WG14 are recommended to revise the registered POSIX and C > locales, in order to align the specifications with the ISO 8601 > standard for date formats (i.e., replace the mm/dd/yy format by the > yyyy/mm/dd format). > > > USA > The US National Body votes to Approve with comments the POSIX Locale for > Registration with ISO/IEC 15897 > > Comment on POSIX locale registration: > > I realize this comment is beyond the original deadline, but not beyond > the April 16 deadline for U.S. comments on the POSIX locale. I noticed > that the values in three categories in the LC_CTYPE section have trailing > semicolons (;). I tried running localedef on our platform on a locale > with the same problems, and it found and reported the errors, so this > probably should be fixed. > > The problems are: > > punct ;;;\ > > ;;;;\ > . . . > > ;;;; > > tolower (,);(,);(,);(,);(,);\ > > (,);(,);(,);(,);(,);\ > > (,);(,);(,);(,);(,);\ > > (

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);(,);(,);(,);(,);\ > > (,);(,);(,);(,);(,);(,); > > > Action: > > 1. Remove the semicolon after in the punct class. > 2. Move the toupper section before tolower and remove the semicolon after > the (,) pair in that definition. > 3. Either remove the semicolon after the (,) pair in the tolower > definition, *or* remove the entire section and replace it with this comment: > > # tolower is the inverse of toupper > > ___________ end of NB comments _____________ > >

);(,);(,);(,);(,);\ > > (,);(,);(,);(,);(,);(,); > > # > > toupper (,);(,);(,);(,);(,);\ > > (,);(,);(,);(,);(,);\ > > (,);(,);(,);(,);(,);\ > > (