Chapter 23: Internationalization and Localization

• 23.1 Defining the Terms
• 23.2 Localizing Cultural Conventions
• 23.2.1 Language
• 23.2.2 Numbers
• 23.2.3 Currency
• 23.2.4 Time and Date
• 23.2.5 Ordering
• 23.3 Character Encodings for Localizing Alphabets
• 23.3.1 Multibyte Encodings
• 23.3.1.1 JIS Encoding
• 23.3.1.2 Shift-JIS Encoding
• 23.3.1.3 EUC Encoding
• 23.3.1.4 Uses of the Three Multibyte Encodings
• 23.3.2 Wide Characters
• 23.3.3 Conversion between Multibyte and Wide Characters
• 23.4 Summary