[Info-vax] [OT] Linux vs Windows vs OS X. Was Re: Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-20, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2013-01-20 16:24:17 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>> The country specific attributes (currency symbols, date format, etc) are
>> set at operating system level and the application is expected to acquire
>> those values from the machine it is running on.
>> 
>> These settings, while they can be changed at application level in some
>> applications, most certainly are not application specific.
>
> In OpenVMS, the "OS" layer closest to what Simon is referencing is 
> implemented in the internationalization add-on package 
><http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/5763/5763pro_019.html>, and ? 
> given the I18N kit is packaged as an add-on kit and not an integrated 
> feature ? its usage among OpenVMS applications probably isn't as 
> frequent or as large as might otherwise be desirable.  I18N includes 
> iconv, locale(), et al.  There is a port of the GNU gettext() API 
> around, too.
>

And on Linux:

	man 1 locale
	man 7 locale

will help get Bill started.

Simon.

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