From keld Mon Sep 22 21:55:29 1997 Received: (from keld@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA19938; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:55:29 +0200 Message-Id: <199709221955.VAA19938@dkuug.dk> From: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:55:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: "ISUNG.US.ORACLE.COM" "Re: (i18n.368) data from ISO CDs 14651 and 14652 available" (Sep 22, 20:26) X-Charset: ISO-8859-1 X-Char-Esc: 29 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mnemonic-Intro: 29 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.2 4/12/91) To: "ISUNG.US.ORACLE.COM" , tgarland@ireland.sun.com Subject: euro in locales Cc: i18n "ISUNG.US.ORACLE.COM" writes: > It might be an idea if we can achieve multi-locale environment at > POSIX in addition to the global locale model as like Distributed > Internationlization Services specification of X/Open which is in > snapshot state and kind of forgotten... We are working at achieving multi-locale support in WG20, in the new project on i18n APIs, ISO 15435. we are looking at the X/Open specs but X/Open actually recommended us to disregard their specs and look at C++ instead, which we then are doing. How would you solve the problem with multi-locale support? In my mind we want the same program to run in an EU environment, say in Ireland, and then in the USA or Canada, without any change in the source. The difference is only in the locales. So there should only be one locale in the Irish case, with information that two currencies should be displayed. Keld