A Comparison Of A "Standard" Application With Its Nls - HP 9000 User Manual

This chapter will show you step-by step how create an internationalized
application. What does creating an internationalized program involve?
Table 6-1 contrasts a standard application with its internationalized
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Table 6·1.
A Comparison of a "Standard" Application with its NLS Version
Non-Internationalized NLS Version
Uses ASCII coded character set only. Support a variety of codesets necessary
for the languages of international users.
For example,
Roman8
for Western
European and
american
locale users.
Supports only single-byte characters of Supports single-byte and multi-byte
the ASCII character set. characters.
Source code must be altered by
One discrete program is structured to
programmers to create new support a variety of linguistic
language-specific versions of the program environments. Translators without
because messages are hard-coded into the programming knowledge can translate
source code. message catalogs to extend program
support; no alteration of source code is
required because there are no hard-coded
messages.
Restricts user to a single user-interface Displays screens in the native language of
due to hard-coded messages. the user by means of the message catalog
system.
Manipulates data according to rules of the Uses NLS tools to handle data in a
English language
language sensitive way.
Displays data on the screen in a Displays data according to the text
left-to-right format direction of the user's language.
Restricted to one date, time, numeric, and Adapts the presentation of data, time,
monetary format. numeric, and monetary strings to the
user's unique requirements.
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