Erik reminded the WG that he would like to see some preliminary activity online before deciding on the agenda for next meeting. Erik handed the floor over to Frank to discuss some content related issues. Frank opened by discussing some international activities that are doing similar work. They asked participants from around the world to contribute. There has been a lot of activity in this organization.
Locale are three of the identified areas of work.
When something is internationalized, it is written the same everywhere. When you localize something, you take something that is internationalized and transform it to conventions of the local culture. The term locale is used to refer to the name of the mapping between internationalized terms and localized terms. You may represent locale information using time zones, language, countries, monies, etc. Frank explained that this is the framework that participants in the ISO have discussed and agreed to use.