Software Internationalization Guide

Contents

Software Internationalization Guide—526225-002

A. Software Supporting Multiple Character Sets

Glossary

Index

Figures

Figure 1-1. Internationalized Application Supporting Several Languages 1-2

Figure 1-2. Localization of an Internationalized Software Product 1-3

Figure 1-3. Separating Program Source Code From Culturally Sensitive Data 1-5

Figure 1-4. Components of an Internationalized Application 1-6

Figure 2-1. Block-Based Writing 2-1

Figure 2-2. Cursive Writing 2-2

Figure 2-3. Chinese Ideograph of a Horse 2-3

Figure 2-4. The Han Ideographic System 2-3

Figure 2-5. Eight-Bit Representation of the Character A 2-5

Figure 2-6. ISO 10646 Character Layout 2-7

Figure 2-7. Creating a Composite Character 2-8

Figure 2-8. Relationship Between Code Sets 2-9

Figure 2-9. Multibyte Character Data Stream 2-10

Figure 2-10. Four-Byte Wide Character Data Stream 2-11

Figure 3-1. The POSIX and XPG Internationalization Model 3-2

Figure 3-2. Generating Message Catalogs 3-10

Figure 3-3. Generating Code-Set Conversion Table 3-13

Figure 4-1. Internationalization Subsystem Architecture 4-18

Tables

Table 2-1. Subsets of Character Sets 2-4

Table 2-2.

ISO 8859 Code Sets 2-6

Table 2-3.

East Asian Code Sets 2-6

Table 2-4. ASCII Code Set 2-14

Table 2-5. Multilevel Collation 2-15

Table 2-6. Date Formats by Language 2-17

Table 2-7. Date Formats by Country 2-17

Table 2-8. Time Formats by Country 2-18

Table 2-9. Numeric Formats by Country 2-18

Table 2-10. Monetary Formats by Country 2-19

Table 4-1. ISO/ANSI C Functions 4-6

Table A-1. Software Tested For Support of Unicode and Chinese Two-Byte

Character Sets A-1