Display Of Days, Weeks, Months; Collation - HP 9000 User Manual

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Display of Days, Weeks, Months
N ames for days of the week and months of the year may vary with language, as
do rules for abbreviating these. The order of the year, month, and day, as well
as the separating delimiters also differ. For example, October 7, 1991 would be
represented in America as:
10/7/91
in Germany, it would be represented as:
7.10.1991
and in the U.K. as:
7/10/91
Chapter 6 describes the library routines used to handle these local customs.
Collation
Each language may use its own distinct "collating sequence"-the sequence in
which characters or words are ordered by the computer. Some language may
even have more than one set of collation rules. The ASCII collation order,
which is the default setting for HP- UX, while it is fast, is inadequate even
for the accuracy requirements of american locale dictionary sorting. Each
language may order the characters differently, and certain languages have
multiple acceptable orderings.
Chinese is an example in which the ideographic characters can be sorted in
order of:
• The numeric value of the character as represented in a computer character
set. (HP has implemented this method only.)
• The number of strokes required to represent the character.
• The radical (root) of the character.
• The pronunciation of the character.
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