From keld@dkuug.dk Thu Dec 27 19:23:53 1990 Received: by dkuug.dk (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA01416; Thu, 27 Dec 90 19:23:53 +0100 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 90 19:23:53 +0100 From: Keld J|rn Simonsen Message-Id: <9012271823.AA01416@dkuug.dk> To: i18n@dkuug.dk Subject: specific locales X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 There has been a discussion on the uniforum-intl list about locales, which I now am continuing on the i18n list, as it is very relevant to the work of WG15 RIN. The original statement as I understood it was that we should not standardize locales, that is the data in locales, but it was OK to standardize the language for it. I am active in three aspects here. 1. I am collecting example locales and making them available by anon ftp and email. I have to date clooected locales for X/Open, Greger Leijonhufvud and myself/DS. They are available from the site dkuug.dk 129.142.96.41 in the directory i18n. Examples of email access: mail uunet!dkuug.dk!archive Subject: dir i18n mail uunet!dkuug.dk!archive Subject: files i18n Names: da_DK ja_JP,XO This is in accordance with an item of the approved programme of work for WG15 RIN. 2. I have been involved in producing the example Danish National profile and locale on behalf of the Danish member body of ISO (DS). This is available as noted above, files da_DK ISO_10646 ISO_8859-1 ISO_646 (the last three are charmaps for the da_DK locale). The da_DK locale is just an example, and has no formal status in Denmark or in the POSIX standard (or in CEN). Work is of cause done on turning this locale into a formal Danish standard. 3. I am a member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 for the C language, and WG14 has asked me to propose a "C" locale which is more intelligent than the current C locale. I have done some work on this. I am not sure if the original poster was hinting at some of this work, and which he thought should not be carried out. I see that there might be problems with the "enhanced C locale" - defining concrete data for that, but that has already been done with the C and POSIX locales. I think the enhanced C locale is very convenient to fulfill the project that WG14 has been mandated to do by SC22 on solving "character set issues". I would like comments on how this could be carried out most conveniently. Keld Simonsen