Creating Worldwide Software: The Book

The book Creating Worldwide Software, 2nd edition, by Bill Tuthill and David Smallberg (SunSoft Press, 1997), is a guide to localizing for the Solaris platform. The book is recommended for developers who work with the Solaris system See "Related Books and Sites" for a full citation.

Overview

The book Creating Worldwide Software is for developers and managers who develop products for the worldwide UNIX platform, especially for the Sun Solaris system.

• Chapter 1, "Winning in Global Markets," briefly shows the market potential of internationalizing your products and defines the steps of internationalization and localization.

• Chapter 2, "Understanding Linguistic and Cultural Differences," shows through examples how an item will appear in various cultures.

• Chapter 3, "Encoding Character Sets," describes how to encode character sets in any language.

• Chapter 4, "Establishing Your Locale Environment," looks at how a user selects a locale. It leads you through the steps of creating a specific locale for your product, including formats for time, date, money, and so on.

• Chapter 5, "Messaging for Program Translation," explains how to prepare your product to handle localized messages. It discusses how to create and install your translated message catalogs.

• Chapter 6, "Displaying Localized Text," discusses font, user interface, and printing issues.

• Chapter 7, "Handling Language Input," discusses the various input methods for various languages.

• Chapter 8, "Working with CDE," explains the CDE environment and your localization.

• Chapter 9, "Motif Programming," discusses how to write applications under Motif and CDE.

• Chapter 10, "X11 Programming," discusses internationalization with X11.

• Chapter 11, "Communicating Network Data," discusses issues in sharing and distributing data across networks.

• Chapter 12, "Writing International Documentation," includes guidelines for writing manuals and documentation to be translated.

• Chapter 13, "Product Localization," discusses business issues.

• Chapter 14, "Standards Organizations," is a summary of the international standards organizations.

• Chapter 15, "Internationalization Checklist," has a checklist for internationalization.

• Appendix A, "Languages, Territories, and Locale Names," lists the standard names for languages, locales, and so on.

• Appendix B, "Locale Summaries and Keyboard Layouts," lists many locale-specific information and keyboard layouts.

• Appendix C, "OpenWindows and DevGuide," explains how internationalization works with OpenWindows.

• Appendix D, "XView Programming," discusses internationalization with XView.

• Appendix E, "OLIT Programming," discusses internationalization with OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit (OLIT).

• Appendix F, "Example Program," offers a complete source code for an internationalized Motif application.

• Appendix G, "Annotated Bibliography," is a summary of additional suggested books.

• Appendix H, "Glossary," is a list of key terms.