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• Version Notice
• About this book
  • Other Information to Help You
  • Terms Used in This Guide
  • Notation Used in This Guide
  • Trademarks
• Introduction
  • What is XPG4 Internationalization?
  • What Does XPG4 I18N Do for You?
• What is the IBM DBCS OS/2?
  • Difference between SBCS OS/2 and DBCS OS/2
  • Variation of DBCS OS/2
• How to make your Application Internationalized?
  • In the Beginning of All - setlocale
    • What Is Locale?
    • Locale Implementation of IBM Visual Age C++ for OS/2
    • What Does an Application Have to Do?
    • The Exception - LC_MONETARY
    • What Should Be Contained in the Product Package?
  • Determining an Environment
  • To Store a Character - Multibyte vs. Wide Character
    • Multi Byte vs. Wide Character
    • Interface between Wide-based Part and Multibyte-based Subsystems
    • Stream Input and Output
  • Processing Strings
    • Wide String Handling
    • Wide Character Testing and Conversion Functions
    • Multibyte String Handling
  • Generating PM Windows
    • Preparing DBCS Input
      • Adding a Status Line to a Window
      • Allowing a User to Perform On-the-spot Conversion
    • Preparing a Device-independent Window
      • Calculate the Window Coordinates
      • Few Things About Fonts
      • Displaying Characters in a Window
  • Preparing for PII Translation
    • Isolating PII
    • Loading Appropriate PII Data
    • Fitting Dialog Windows into a PM Screen
    • Putting Mnemonics for DBCS Languages in Resources
  • Country Unique Formats for Output
  • Known Restrictions of the Current VAC++
• Setting Up Your Environment For Developing DBCS Application
  • Files to Be Modified
  • Runtime Library
  • Dialog Editor
  • Resource Complier
  • IPFC (Information Presentation Facility Compiler)
  • ICC Compiler
    • C Runtime Library
  • PM Debugger
  • Other Utilities