AIX globalization
Globalization provides commands and Standard C Library subroutines for a single worldwide system base. An globalized system has no built-in assumptions or dependencies on language-specific or cultural-specific conventions such as:
- Code sets
- Character classifications
- Character comparison rules
- Character collation order
- Numeric and monetary formatting
- Date and time formatting
- Message-text language
All information pertaining to cultural conventions and language is obtained at process run time.
The following capabilities are provided by the globalization features to maintain a system running in an international environment: