About This Book

National Language Support Overview

Locales

Subroutines for National Language Support

Code Sets for National Language Support

Converters Overview for Programming

Input Methods

Message Facility

Culture-Specific Data Handling

Culture-Specific Tables

Culture-Specific Algorithms

Example of Loading a Culture-Specific Module for Arabic Text for an Application

Layout (Bidirectional Text and Character Shaping) Overview

Appendix A. National Language Support (NLS) Reference

Appendix B. Character Maps

Appendix C. NLS Sample Program

Appendix D. Use of the libcur Package

Appendix E. Notices

Index