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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: X/OPEN standards and BSD
Date: 23 Jul 1995 09:02:44 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3ut37k$eoj@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <3004ef50.4f4541@oea.xs4all.nl> <3um6m0$ec9@hawk.hcsc.com> <3umjuu$c4p@agate.berkeley.edu>
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jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) wrote:
>
> In article <3um6m0$ec9@hawk.hcsc.com>,
> Sanjay Kumar <skumar@spectre.ssd.csd.harris.com> wrote:
> >I was intersted in knowing if the latest BSD release supports the
> >UNIX 95/XPG4 Issue 2 set of standards from X/OPEN consortium.
> >If it does'nt , are there any plans to support these in near future.
>
> It's an evolving process, and we current support some aspects of XPG4
> and not others. It really needs someone to go through the spec line
> by line and even try to determine whether or not we're in compliance
> to each one (and then try to figure out what needs to happen in the
> cases where we're not).
*Support*, not *Conform".
The XPG/4 stuff is not terribly popular. It's the XPG/3 stuff
with hacks for Asian languages, which already have runic support
in the form of ISO 2022.
Were I designing an internationalization system, I would not
design XPG/4. The message catalogs seperation instead of task
potential message unification (ala AIX) alone is a big vote against
it (why have *two* localized versions of the "OK" and "Cancel"
button text?).
Nevertheless, yes, I believe that's the direction most of the
BSD'ers are going in.
I don't believe there is public XPG/4 code as yet.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.