Document Number: N1042
Document Date: 2003-11-08

C locale, Narrative Cultural Specification

Users: general, applications: general
Source: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 - C
Token identifier: c,_1.3
POSIX-locale: c,_1.3

Clause 1: Alphanumeric deterministic ordering

Ordering in the standard C locale is according to the code point order of ISO/IEC 646:1993.

Clause 2: Classification of characters

The C locale uses normal classification of characters, such as letters, digits, punctuation and control characters, and letters are mapped between uppercase and lowercase.

Clause 3: Numeric formatting

The decimal separator is FULL STOP "."
The thousands separator is void.
There is no grouping of large numbers.

Clause 4: Monetary formatting

The monetary formatting is not specified, as this specification should be usable in many international environments.

Clause 5: Date and time conventions

The weekday and month names are written with English names.

The abbreviations used for before or after noon are "AM" and "PM" respectively.

Weekday name	Short weekday name
Sunday	Sun
Monday	Mon
Tuesday	Tue
Wednesday	Wed
Thursday	Thu
Friday	Fri
Saturday	Sat

Month name	Short month name
January	Jan
February	Feb
March	Mar
April	Apr
May	May
June	Jun
July	Jul
August	Aug
September	Sep
October	Oct
November	Nov
December	Dec

Abbreviated day and time:	Tue Jun 7 23:22:33 1994
Numeric date:	06/23/99
Time:	18:06:20
12-hour time:	06:06:20 PM

The abbreviations used for before or after noon are "AM" and "PM" respectively.

Clause 6: Affirmative and negative answers

Yes expressions: strings starting with	"Y" or "y"	(= Yes)
No expressions: strings starting with	"N" or "n"	(= No)

End of Narrative Cultural Specification.