Re: [Communicator-user] Communicator internationalization?

[Scott C. <cy...@sl...>]

> Over the last few weeks, a number of people have asked me about how
> hard it would be to internationalize Communicator. I freely admit that
> I have barely the faintest idea what that might mean, besides
> (perhaps) introducing a wide string datatype. Has anyone thought about
> this issue?

Internationalization could mean making all the tihngs Communicator prints
out obey the localization settings.  This is a lot of work.

If it is "just" a matter of building multi-lingual systems, then
Communicator is out of the picture if the servers can agree on a standard
character encoding such as UTF-8, Big5, etc.  (CJKV Information Processing
by Ken Lunde is a good resource for the harder cases: Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, and Vietnamese).  None of this is very pleasant in C/C++.