From mdeane@ANSI.org Tue May 15 22:16:26 2001 Received: from email1.ansi.org (email1.ansi.org [216.173.49.99]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA48078 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 22:16:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mdeane@ANSI.org) Received: by email1.ansi.org with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 15 May 2001 16:16:39 -0400 Message-ID: <2F81C8110D55D411882A0020356797B2194E19@email1.ansi.org> From: Matthew Deane To: "'SC 22 Distribution List'" Subject: SC 22 N 3236 - Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3210 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:16:38 -0400 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces Secretariat: U.S.A. (ANSI) ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 N3236 TITLE: Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3210, Letter Ballot on C Locale for Registration with ISO/IEC 15897 DATE ASSIGNED: 2001-05-15 SOURCE: Secretariat, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 BACKWARD POINTER: N/A DOCUMENT TYPE: Summary of Voting PROJECT NUMBER: 22.15897 STATUS: The results of this ballot are sent to SC 22/WG 20 for resolution of the comments and appropriate action. ACTION IDENTIFIER: FYI DUE DATE: N/A DISTRIBUTION: Text CROSS REFERENCE: N3210 DISTRIBUTION FORM: Def Address reply to: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22 Secretariat Matt Deane ANSI 25 West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 642-4992 Fax: (212) 840-2298 Email: mdeane@ansi.org _______ end of title page; beginning of summary ______________ SUMMARY OF VOTING ON Letter Ballot Reference No: SC22 N3210 Circulated by: JTC 1/SC22 Circulation Date: 2001-02-16 Closing Date: 2001-04-16 SUBJECT: Summary of Voting on SC 22 N 3210, Letter Ballot on C Locale for Registration with ISO/IEC 15897 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The following responses have been received on the subject of approval: "P" Members supporting approval without comment 7 (Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Russian Federation, USA) "P" Members supporting approval with comments 1 (Netherlands) "P" Members not supporting approval 0 "P" Members abstaining 1 (France) "P" Members not voting 12 (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Egypt, Finland, Japan, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, UK) ___________ end of summary, beginning on NB comments _____________ Netherlands Approval with comments: NEN (the Dutch NB) supports the registration of N3210 as the C locale with the following comments: - differences between the (text of) the POSIX locale and the C locale may cause confusion, and should therefore be eliminated. As the POSIX locale is part of ISO 9945, and hence cannot easily be changed, it is recommended to make the C locale identical to the POSIX locale as follows: + in Clause 3, replace the specification for FULL STOP from '<.>' to '"."' + in the C Standard Locale, replace the Charset from 'ISO_646.IRV:1991' to 'ISO646:1993'. - once the POSIX locale is removed from the ISO 9945 standard, WG15 and WG14 are recommended to revise the registered POSIX and C locales, in order to align the specifications with the ISO 8601 standard for date formats (i.e., replace the mm/dd/yy format by the yyyy/mm/dd format). Sweden - 'O' Member 1. The date format should be according to ISO 8601:2001 (with full year representation). This allows for easy collation in datetime order of the formatted results. 2. The collation table format should be according to ISO/IEC 14651:2001. In particular three levels are required (even if not really used, as in this case), e.g. ;; (note that ;IGNORE;IGNORE would NOT conform to 14651). 3. The collation weight UNDEFINED should be explicitly weighted.