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1、 Reference numberISO/IEC TR 14652:2004(E)ISO/IEC 2004Information technology Specification method for cultural conventions Technologies de linformation Mthode de modlisation des conventions culturelles National Standard of CanadaCAN/CSA-ISO/IEC TR 14652:05(ISO/IEC TR 14652:2004)Technical Report ISO/I

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18、CSA-ISO/IEC TR 14652:05 Information technology Specification method for cultural conventionsOctober 2005 Canadian Standards Association CSA/1CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC TR 14652:05Information technology Specification method for cultural conventionsCSA PrefaceStandards development within the Information Technolo

19、gy sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council o

20、f Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).At the time of publication,

21、ISO/IEC TR 14652:2004 is available from ISO and IEC in English only. CSA will publish the French version when it becomes available from ISO and IEC.This Technical Report was reviewed by the CSA TCIT under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Steering Committee on Information Technology and deemed accep

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23、talogue or CSA Info Update or contact a CSA Sales representative. This Standard has been formally approved, without modification, by the Technical Committee and has been approved as a National Standard of Canada by the Standards Council of Canada.October 2005 Canadian Standards Association 2005All r

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25、a”.Inquiries regarding this National Standard of Canada should be addressed toCanadian Standards Association5060 Spectrum Way, Suite 100, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4W 5N61-800-463-6727 416-747-4044www.csa.caReference numberISO/IEC TR 14652:2004(E)ISO/IEC 2004TECHNICAL REPORT ISO/IECTR14652First

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31、 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyrightiso.org Web www.iso.org ii ISO/IEC 2004 All rights reservedISO/IEC TR 14652:2004(E) ISO/IEC 2004 All rights reserved iiiContents Page FOREWORD iv INTRODUCTION v 1 SCOPE 1 2 NORMATIVE REFERENCES 1 3 TERMS, DEFINITIONS AND NOTATIONS 2 4 FDCC-set 7 4.1 FDCC-set descript

32、ion 7 4.2 LC_IDENTIFICATION 12 4.3 LC_CTYPE (controversial) 13 4.4 LC_COLLATE 27 4.5 LC_MONETARY (controversial) 39 4.6 LC_NUMERIC 43 4.7 LC_TIME (controversial) 44 4.8 LC_MESSAGES 51 4.9 LC_XLITERATE (controversial) 52 4.10 LC_NAME 54 4.11 LC_ADDRESS 55 4.12 LC_TELEPHONE 57 5 CHARMAP 58 6 REPERTOIR

33、EMAP (controversial) 63 Annex A (informative) DIFFERENCES FROM POSIX (ISO/IEC 9945) 92 Annex B (informative) RATIONALE 94 Annex C (informative) BNF GRAMMAR 107 Annex D (informative) OUTSTANDING ISSUES 112 INDEX 116 BIBLIOGRAPHY 119 ISO/IEC TR 14652:2004(E) iv ISO/IEC 2004 All rights reservedForeword

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41、n is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO/IEC TR 14652, which is a Technical Report of type 1, was prepared by Joint Technical Committee IS

42、O/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 22, Programming languages, their environments and system software interfaces. This document is published as a type 1 Technical Report on the request of a number of member bodies, whose concerns are recorded in Annex D. ISO/IEC TR 14652:2004(E)Intr

43、oductionThis Technical Report defines a general mechanism to specify cultural conventions, and itdefines formats for a number of specific cultural conventions in the areas of characterclassification and conversion, sorting, number formatting, monetary formatting, dateformatting, message display, add

44、ressing of persons, postal address formatting, andtelephone number handling.There are a number of benefits coming from this Technical Report:Rigid specification Using this Technical Report, a user can rigidly specify anumber of the cultural conventions that apply to theinformation technology environ

45、ment of the user.Cultural adaptability If an application has been designed and built in aculturally neutral manner, the application may use thespecifications as data to its APIs, and thus the sameapplication may accommodate different users in aculturally acceptable way to each of the users, withoutc

46、hange of the binary application.Productivity This Technical Report specifies those culturalconventions and how to specify data for them. With thatdata an application developer is relieved from getting thedifferent information to support all the culturalenvironments for the expected customers of the

47、product.The application developer is thus ensured of culturallycorrect behaviour as specified by the customer, andpossibly more markets may be reached as customers mayhave the possibility to provide the data themselves formarkets that were not targeted.Uniform behaviour When a number of applications

48、 share one culturalspecification, which may be supplied from the user orprovided by the application or operating system, theirbehaviour for cultural adaptation becomes uniform.The specification format is independent of platforms and specific encoding, and targeted tobe usable from a wide range of pr

49、ogramming languages.A number of cultural conventions, such as spelling, hyphenation rules and terminology, arenot specifiable with this Technical Report, but it provides mechanisms to define newcategories and also new keywords within existing categories. An internationalizedapplication may take advantage of information provided with the FDCC-set (such as thelanguage) to provide further internationalized services to the user.This Technical Report defines a format compatible with the one used in the Internationalstring ordering sta