Creating Worldwide Software

A guide to developing software for international markets, this text shows how to internationalize software so that it can support users worldwide with minimal additional effort. It covers a wide range of topics, including establishing locale environments, encoding character sets, displaying localized text, messaging for program translation, handling language input and localizing software once it has been internationalized. The book presents thorough coverage of internationalization techniques for CDE, Motif and X11. It also covers global Internet applications using Web browsers, HTML, MIME and NFS. Finally, it discusses the preparation of international documentation.