From keld@dkuug.dk Fri Mar 15 22:22:47 1991 Received: by dkuug.dk (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA27470; Fri, 15 Mar 91 22:22:47 +0100 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 22:22:47 +0100 From: Keld J|rn Simonsen Message-Id: <9103152122.AA27470@dkuug.dk> To: wg15rin@dkuug.dk Subject: DS comments to DTs 1st questionnaire X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 1991-03-05 STAN52 ST DANISH ANSWERS AND COMMENTS ON DON TERRY's 1ST QUESTIONAIRE. Provided by Sven Thygesen, Kommunedata. Date and time: Month: Form 1: a one or two digit number 1-12 Form 2 (ref. ISO 8601): a two digit number 01-12 Form 3: a month name abbreviation jan, feb, mar, apr, maj, jun, jul, aug, sep, okt, nov, dec Form 4: an arbitrary length month name januar, februar, marts, april, maj, juni, juli, august, september, oktober, november, december Capitalization: A month name doesn't have a capitalized first let- ter unless it is starting a sentence. Day: Form 1: a one or two digit number 1-31 Form 2 (ref. ISO 8601): a two digit number 01-31 Year: (ref. ISO 8601) Form 1: four digits of the Western era e.g. 1991 Form 2: last two digits of the Western era e.g. 91 Day of the week: Form 1: a day of the week name abbreviation man, tir, ons, tor, fre, l|r, s|n New Form 2: a day of the week name abbreviation with an arbitrary length man, tirs, ons, tors, fre, l|r, s|n Form 3: an arbitrary length week day name mandag, tirsdag, onsdag, torsdag, fredag, l|rdag, s|ndag Form 4: Numeric day of the week (ref. ISO 8601, paragraph 5.2.3) man=1, tir=2, ons=3, tor=4, fre=5, l|r=6, s|n=7 Form 5: a day of the week name abbreviation, two letters: ma, ti, on, to, fr, l|, s| Change NB! Monday is the first day of the week and has number 1. Sunday has number 7 in the week and not 0 as mentioned in the questionaire. Capitalization: A day name doesn't have a capitalized first letter unless it is starting a sentence. New Calendar week number: (ref. ISO 8601, paragraph 5.2.3 and 3.17) Calendar weeks is represented by two numeric di- gits. The first calender week of a year shall be identified as 01 and subsequent weeks shall be numbered in ascending sequence. The first calendar week of the year is the one that includes the first thursday of that year. Hours: The 24-hour timekeeping system is in use in Denm- ark. Form 1: one or two decimal digits 0-24 Form 2 (ISO 8601): two decimal digits 00-24 AM/PM: N/A, The 24-hour timekeeping system is in use in Denmark. Comment NB! Comment to the Japanish answers: According to ISO 8601 it is not allowed to specify 24:30. Midnight 00:00:00 is the beginning of the day and 24:00:00 is the end of the day. Minutes and seconds: Form 1 (ISO 8601): two decimal digits e.g. 42:10 Form 2: two decimal digits e.g. 42.10 New In Denmark a decimal fraction shall be divided from the integer part by comma "," (ref. 8601), e.g. 42,5 minuts equals 42:30 Combinations of date and time of the day: Form 1: [DD/MM-YY] e.g. 21/12-91 Form 2: [DD-MM-YY] e.g. 21-12-91 Form 3: [DD.MM.YY] e.g. 21.12.91 Form 4: [DD/MM/YY] e.g. 21/12/91 Form 5 (ISO 8601): [YYYY-MM-DD] e.g. 1991-09-31 Other combinations are acceptable according to the presentations forms for year, month and day defined above. Time zones: Change Form 1 (ISO 8601): e.g. 15:27:46+01:00 for the local time in e.g. Geneva one hour ahead of UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) Form 2 New Periods: Form 1 (ISO 8601): A period beginning at 20 minutes past 23 hours on 12 April 1985 and ending at 30 minutes past 10 hours on 25 June 1985: 1985-04-12T23:20:50/1985-06-25T10:30:00, where [T] is a designator for the time part. A periode beginning on 12 April 1985 and ending on 25 June 1985: 1985-04-12/06-25 A periode beginning on 12 April 1985 and ending on 14 April 1985: 1985-04-12/14 Character set characteristics: Character classification (ISO 6937): See the Danish POSIX-locale Alphabetic Upper and Lower case Decimal digits Currency signs Punctuation marks Arithmetic signs Superscripts Fractions Miscellaneous symbols Diacrirical marks Character repertoire: See the Danish POSIX-locale Collation: See the Danish POSIX-profile Number notation: Form 1: A period "." is used as thousands seperator If a decimal fraction is included it shall be divi- ded from the integer part by comma "," Positive format: e.g. 12.345,67 New Negative format: e.g. -12.345,67 Form 2: If a decimal fraction is included it shall be divi- ded from the integer part by comma "," Positive format: e.g. 12345,67 New Negative format: e.g. -12345,67 Number rounding: New XYZ,0 through XYZ,4 round to XYZ New XYZ,5 through XYZ,9 round to XY(Z+1) Currency: Thousands seperator: period Decimal seperator: comma New Currency decimal positions: 2 New Currency field length: 11? New Padding characters: none New Danish currency (ISO 4217): Name: Danish krone Code: Alfabetic: DKK Numeric: 208 Measurement systems New Denmark: Metric units Messages and responses: For "yes" and "no" see the Danish POSIX-locale Text presentations: Danish: Left to right, and top to buttom Codes for the representation of names of countries (ISO 3166): New Name: Denmark New Code: Alfabetic (2 characters): DK Alfabetic (3 characters): DNK Numeric: 208 Codes for represention of names of languages (ISO 639): Name: Danish Code: da OTHER CULTURE DEPENDENCIES ARE PROBABLY NOT (ALL) RELEVANT AS OPERATING SYSTEMS SERVICES (SOURCE OF THE LIST: ISO/IEC/JTC-1 TSG-1): New Hyphenation of word New Word representation of numbers New Phone number formatting: Internation calls: +45 XX XX XX XX Domistic calls: XX XX XX XX New Postal address formatting New Case of surname: In French the surname is given in capital letters In Danish the surname has only the initial letter capitalized, the rest are smalls. New Icons and symbols New Color usage New Paper size Denmark: ISO ??? (=DIN 66008) New Letter presentation: Name and adress (top-left in France and Denmark, Top-right in UK) Date (right in France and Denmark, left in UK) New Cultural tagging of data: Tagging of culture dependent data (e.g. English and Frensh text) for the purpose of e.g. spell chec- king. New Simultaneous multicultural support: FOR MACHINE READABLE INTERCHANGE OF INFORMATION BETWEEN SY- STEMS: Use the rules for information interchange: ISO 8601:1988, "Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange - Representation of dates and times". ISO 6093, "Information processing - Representation of numerical values in character strings for information interchange". ISO 3166:1988 "Codes for the representation of names of countries". ISO 639:1988 "Code for the representation of names of languages". ISO 4217:1990 "Codes for the representation of currencies and funds".