Chapter 2. Introduction

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The following chapter of `Characters in Each Country' on page

35

describes the detailed infor 

mations for each language. These informations will help people who develop high quality text

processing softwares such as DTP and Web Browsers.

Chapter of `LOCALE technology' on page

53

describes the most important concept for I18N. Not

only concepts but also many important C functions are introduced in this chapter.

A few following chapters of `Output to Display' on page

63

, `Input from Keyboard' on page

69

,

`Internal Processing and File I/O' on page

75

, and `the Internet' on page

83

are important and

frequent applications of LOCALE technology. You can get solutions for typical problems on I18N

in these chapters.

You may need to develop software using some special libraries or other languages than C/C++.

Chapters of `Libraries and Components' on page

87

and `Softwares Written in Other than C/C++'

on page

91

are written for such purposes.

Next chapter of `Examples of I18N' on page

95

is a collection of case studies. Both of generic and

special technologies will be discussed. You can also contribute writing a section for this chapter.

You may want to study more; The last chapter of `References' on page

119

is supplied for this

purpose. Some of references listed in the chapter are very important.