HP-UX 11i March 2002 Release Notes

New and Changed Internationalization Features
EURO (ISO 8859-15 Locales)
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EURO (ISO 8859-15 Locales)
Euro support is provided via locale support for the ISO 8859-15 character set. ISO
8859-15 is a newly ratified character set that differs from ISO 8859-1 in that it supports
eight new characters. Specific enhancements are provided to allow Euro display, input,
and processing capabilities.
Fourteen new locales have been created based on ISO 8859-15:
Source files for supported European locales are also being supplied.
Applications must elect to enable ISO 8859-15 support, by setting the LANG
environment variable to the desired locale.
ISO 8859-15 support is part of HP-UX and is available to all platforms. ISO 8859-15
support is not automatically turned on for any application. No special configuration is
required and there are no compatibility issues involved with the addition of this new
feature.
Locales are installed, based on which current language file sets are already installed on
a target system.
The LC_MONETARY environment variable will be set to the euro for all locales listed above
except C.iso885915 and fr_CA.iso885915. Standard euro formatting rules will apply to
ALL locales where this environment variable is set to the euro. As a result, users may
encounter a change to the decimal and thousands separators for the currency, whereas
decimal and thousands separators outside the monetary area stay the same as in
previous locales.
Locale Language (Country)
C.iso885915 “C”
da_DK.iso885915@euro Danish (Denmark)
de_DE.iso885915@euro German (Germany)
en_GB.iso885915@euro English (Great Britain)
es_ES.iso885915@euro Spanish (Spain)
fi_FI.iso885915@euro Finnish (Finland)
fr_CA.iso885915@euro French (Canada)
fr_FR.iso885915@euro French (France)
fr_IS.iso885915@euro Icelandic (Iceland)
it_IT.iso885915@euro Italian (Italy)
nl_NL.iso885915@euro Dutch (The Netherlands)
no_NO.iso885915@euro Norwegian (Norway)
pt_PT.iso885915@euro Portuguese (Portugal)
sv_SE.iso885915@euro Swedish (Sweden)