Supporting many human languages.

[ryerson.schwark]

In article <3366 at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <1990Jul2.205752.2317 at mmm.serc.3m.com>, us269574 at mmm.SERC.3M.Com (Darryn J. Kozak) writes:
>> I need to support a software product to be used in different countries.
>Find a good technical bookshop and get the X/Open stuff.
>National(?) Language Support is covered by that, and the interface
>they recommend is supported by several UNIX systems (HP-UX, AIX, others).
>SVR4 is different, though.
>

Yes, SVR4 is different because in addition to european languages
and x/open conformance, we also support Asian languages which require
multibyte character handling.  If you're interested in handling
asian languages, I strongly suggest you look at SVR3/4.


Ry Schwark
ry at uso.att.com