Re: Localization (4.4.2.1)

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From: Rex Jaeschke
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1991 02:09

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> >>>>> On 18 Feb 91 14:28:28 GMT, rex@aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke) said:
> Rex> PJ Plauger, ANSI C secretary and ISO C convenor, played a significant role 
...

> Not fair!  What is the name of the book?  When is it expected to be
> available?  When will we know the "reasonable cost" of the source?
> 
> If the cost for the source is _really_ reasonable (i.e. inexpensive) I
> could see a lot of non-implementors buying it and using it with various
> "ANSI compliant" compilers from various vendors to ease porting.  It's no
> fun when two supposedly compliant compilers yield different behavior.
> Getting locales right appears (to me) to be an especially tricky problem.

While I've known for quite a while he was doing a portable library to be 
made available under license I was not aware until the week of my posting 
it was going to be documented and made available to the public as such. 
When I find out I shall try and remember to post the info here. Right now 
I don't know the answers and I'm just as interested as you are.

Rex

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From: rex@aussie.COM (Rex Jaeschke)
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Subject: Re: Localization (4.4.2.1)
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Date: 3 Mar 91 02:09:24 GMT
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