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.