HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

New and Changed Internationalization Features
EURO (ISO 8859-15 Locales)
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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.
For example,in the French locale, the thousands separator is a space and
the decimal point is a comma. However, the international standard for
the thousands separator for the euro currency is a period. So, a user that
has the LC_MONETARY locale category set to “fr_FR.iso885915@euro” will
see the following behavior:
• The number one thousand five hundred and fifty and a half, outside
the monetary area will be displayed as 1 550,50
• One thousand five hundred and fifty euro and 50 cents will be
displayed as EUR 1.550,50.
The LC_MONETARY value can be changed by users to their national
currency unit.
ISO 8859-15 support is not automatically provided in any application.
Applications which use the Euro symbol must elect to enable ISO
8859-15 support, by way of setting the LANG environment variable to the
desired locale. Users enable ISO 8859-15 automatically in some locales
when logging in through the CDE.
For more information, please see:
http://software.hp.com/products/EURO/index.html
CDE Support
New functionality was introduced in the CDE product to support input
and display of the Euro symbol. (These changes are for both the
workstation and the server.)