How This Book Is Organized

Explanations of the contents of this book follow:

Chapter 1, Introduction to Internationalization provides an overview of internationalization and localizing within the desktop, including locales, fonts, drawing, inputting, interclient communication, and extracting user visual text. Information on the significance of internationalization standards is also provided.

Chapter 2, Internationalization and the Common Desktop Environment covers the set of topics that developers commonly need to consider when internationalizing their applications, including locale management, localized resources, font management, localized text tasks, interclient communication for localized text, and internationalized functions.

Chapter 3, Internationalization and Distributed Networks discusses topics related to handling encoded characters in distributed networks. Basic principles and examples for interclient interoperability are provided to guide developers in internationalized distributed environments.

Chapter 4, Motif Dependencies topics include internationalized applicaitons, locale management, localized text, international User Interface Language (UIL), and localized applications.

Chapter 5, Xt and Xlib Dependencies topics include locale management, localized text tasks, font set metrics, interclient communications conventions for localized text, and charset and font set encoding and registry information.

Appendix A, Message Guidelines is a set of guidelines for writing messages.