From keld@dkuug.dk Sat Nov 9 18:34:23 1991 Received: by dkuug.dk (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA13378; Sat, 9 Nov 91 18:34:23 +0100 Date: Sat, 9 Nov 91 18:34:23 +0100 From: Keld J|rn Simonsen Message-Id: <9111091734.AA13378@dkuug.dk> To: i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: RIN locale papers X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 The locale papers distributed was discussed at the RIN meeting in Sweden this week. There were several comments to them, including: 1. The naming scheme should be discussed with XoJIG - RIN would prefer XoJIG to come with a proposal, and then just use that naming, so that any incompatibility could be avoided. The RIN "operational rules" paper should be seen as a discussion paper for RIN/XoJIG communication. 2. the characters accepted in the locale name should be restricted to the POSIX portable filename character set. XPG4 has changed the locale description to be a filename - this was not the case with XPG3. So the portable filename characters should be used. This excludes use of eg. "," and ";" in the name. 3. the name of the locale should be at most 14 characters long - this length problem could also be solved by using directories. 4. some of the fields of the name should be described further. 5. RIN adopted the "locale guidelines" as a working guideline, that is we will try it out and Canada promised to work on a Canadian locale based on the paper. Keld