Programming for the World: A Guide to Internationalization

Programming for the World: A Guide to Internationalization, 1/e

Sandra Martin O'Donnell, Open Software Foundation

Published January, 1998 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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Summary

This handbook shows how to modify computer systems to meet the needs of international users.

Features

explores the many linguistic and cultural conventions used throughout the world — from Japanese to German to Thai — discussing how to break old programming habits in order to design in the flexibility needed to handle a variety of differing user needs.
covers changes that need to be made to technical documentation in order to describe systems accurately to international users.
includes code examples in C, and describes specific internationalization facilities associated with UNIX-like systems.

Table of Contents

1. What's This All About?
2. A World of Differences.
3. The World by Design.
4. Speaking Your Language.
5. Processing International Data Correctly.
6. Getting the System to Speak Your Language.
7. Multilingual and Distributed Processing.
8. A Few Constants.
9. Writing About the World.
Index.