JTC1/SC22/WG14 N1030

Document Number: N1030
Document Date:   22-Sep-2003


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

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                      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
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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)


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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. 
<a>     <a>;<BASE>;<MIN> 
(note that <a>;IGNORE;IGNORE would NOT conform to 14651). 

3. The collation weight UNDEFINED should be explicitly weighted.