From keld@dkuug.dk Mon Oct  4 18:29:33 1993
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From: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 17:29:33 +0100
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       "(SC22WG15.311) X/Open Registry of Locales" (Oct  4, 17:15)
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To: isaak@csac.zko.dec.com (Jim Isaak-respond via isaak@decvax.dec.com),
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Subject: Re: (SC22WG15.311) X/Open Registry of Locales

Jim Isaak writes:

> Recent mail received from the U.S. RAC indicates that X/Open
> is setting up a registry of Locales -- apparently Vic Goddard
> at X/Open is the contact point for information about that.
> (The letter from Vic to the US RAC is dated May 25, 1993).
> 
> The letter is triggered by the submission of a U.S. locale
> for registration, and indicates that "An official Locale
> from a Standards Body would take precedence over an unoffical
> locale and the intent is that the registry will eventually only
> contain locales from formal standards bodies."

Yes, their initial collection of locales includes the Danish
locales as we have published them in ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993
together with a number of other standards bodies locales, of
Nordic and Baltic origin.  (that is Finnish, Estonian, Icelandic,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Swedish locales).

There are also some locales that I have submitted privately to them.
(some 20 locales, including major european and american countries).
All these locales, and more are obtainable from the WG15 collection
of POSIX locales, in the directory dkuug.dk:i18n/locales - charmaps
in dkuug.dk:i18n/charmaps - avaliable by ftp and email.

I think that the X/Open locales are not available publically.

Keld