HP-UX 11i v3 Internationalization Features

5. Commands and Libraries

Libc Library Routines

The following two libc functions have changed in conformance to the Unix2003 standard.

strfmon()

The behavior of the strfmon() function has been changed slightly to align with the UNIX 2003

standard. The system locales are changed accordingly to make the behavior of the strfmon()

function the same as before, unless applications use non-system locales. In applications using non-

system locales, the LC_MONETARY sections of the user-customized locales may have to be updated

so as to provide the old strfmon() behavior.

localeconv()

The localeconv() function has been changed to return an lconv structure with new members for

formatting monetary quantity with international currency symbol. The values of some of the existing

members may be changed to reflect new semantics in the UNIX 2003 standard. Applications that

use those values directly for formatting may have to be updated to handle new semantics as

defined in the UNIX 2003 standard.

The following manual pages have been updated to reflect the new and updated functionalities:

strfmon(3C)

localeconv(3C)

localedef command

Expanded ctype Class Support

The 11i v3 version of the localedef command now allows the definition of up to 255 character type

classes within a locale. Previous releases allowed a maximum of 32 ctype classes. This 255 ctype

class limit includes the built-in classes, such as alpha, digit, and upper.

To support more than 32 ctype classes, libc wctype() and iswctype() functions have been modified

internally. However, these changes are transparent and there is no impact on applications that use

these functions.

UNIX 2003-Related Changes

The localedef command now supports the following new features and options defined in the UNIX

2003 standard:

• New -u option for specifying the name of a codeset used as the target mapping of character

symbols and collating element symbols whose encoding values are defined in terms of the

Unicode scalar values.

• New LC_MONETARY keywords related to the formatting of monetary quantities with international

currency symbol.

• Optional use of width specification in the charmap files for specifying multibyte character width

instead of using a wcwidth method.

For more information on these new features, refer to the localedef(1M), localeconv(3C),

localedef(4), and charmap(4) manual pages.