HP-UX 11.0 - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper

Encoding Characters

Euro Support

Chapter 2

Euro Support

Euro (ISO 8859-15 Locales) [11.0 patch, 11i v1]

Euro support is provided through locale support for the ISO 8859-15 character set. ISO 8859-15 is a newly

ratified character set that differs from ISO 8859-1 by supporting eight new characters. Specific enhancements

are provided to allow Euro display, input, and processing capabilities.

Fourteen new locales, listed in Table 2-1, have been created based on ISO 8859-15.

Source files for supported European locales are also supplied.

Applications must choose 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, but 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 filesets are already installed on a target system.

The LC_MONETARY environment variable is set to the euro for all locales listed in Table 2-1 except

C.iso885915 and fr_CA.iso885915. Standard euro formatting rules 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.

Table 2-1 New ISO 8859-15 Locales

Locale Language (Region)

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 French (Canada)

fr_FR.iso885915@euro French (France)

is_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)