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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: NLS support (was: Re: ghost file)
Summary: COnsult X/Open Portatbility Guide
Message-ID: <2665@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 4 Dec 88 12:06:41 GMT
References: <17625@adm.BRL.MIL> <903@kuling.UUCP>
Reply-To: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Organization: Multihouse N.V., The Netherlands
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In article <903@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide) writes:
>In HP-UX with its Native Language Support (NLS), [...]
>[...]  The same should be true for any other UNIX supporting
>NLS (SysV.3?).

X/Open portability Guide 2 (XPG2) includes NLS as an extension part of
the application environment. XPG3, to be published by now,
specifies NLS as a base part. So NLS should be in all X/Open XPG2
compliant systems, and it MUST be in XPG3 compliant systems.
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