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> aet@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Bert THOMPSON) writes:
>
> >Also, can anyone suggest some good reference texts on
> >internationalization?
>
> Here's a list I've compiled over the last year or so...
>
>
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                 INTERNATIONALIZATION REFERENCE LIST
                             25 May 1994


IBM
===
Order from: your local IBM branch office

NLS Information & Design Guide
------------------------------
Vol 1, Designing Enabled Products, Rules and Guidelines, SE09-8001.
Vol 2, Reference Manual, SE09-8002.
Vol 3, Arabic Script Languages, SE09-8003.
Vol 4, Hebrew, SE09-8004.

Character Data Representation Architecture
------------------------------------------
Level 1, Reference, SC09-1390.
Level 1, Registry, SC09-1391.
Executive Overview, SC09-1392.

3174 Establishment Controller Character Set Reference, GA27-3831.

DBCS Design Guide - System/370 Software, GG18-9095.

DBCS Applications Primer - Enabling your programs for Chinese/
Japanese/Korean), GG18-9059.

Keys to Sort and Search for Culturally Expected Results, GG24-3516.

National Language Support (NLS) Enabling of IBM AS/400 Applications,
GG24-3807.

IBM 3174 CECP Migration Issues, GG24-3380.

CUA Advanced Interface Design Reference, SC34-4290.


Microsoft
=========
Adapt Your Program for Worldwide Use with Windows Internationaliza-
tion Support. William S. Hall. Microsoft Systems Journal, Vol. 6,
No. 6, 1991, pp.29-58.

Internationalizing Software for Windows. William S. Hall. Microsoft
Windows 3.1 Developer's Workshop. pp. 3-90. Microsoft Press, 1993,
$34.95, ISBN 1-55615-480-1.

The GUI Guide: International Terminology for the Windows Interface.
European Edition. Microsoft Press. $29.95, ISBN 1-55615-538-7.

Internationalization Handbook for Software Design.
This document is available on the Microsoft Developer's Network CD
ROM 5 (and presumably all later issues).

Internationalization in Windows NT, Part I: Programming with Unicode.
William S. Hall. Microsoft Systems Journal, June 1994, pp.57-71.


DEC
===
Order from: DECdirect
            800-DIGITAL (800-344-4825)

Developing International Software, order number EY-F577E-DP, $28.95

Developing International User Information, order number EY-H894E-DP,
$24.95

Digital Technical Journal, Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1993. $16.00
This issue of the DTJ is devoted to Product Internationalization.
The articles published in this issue are: International Cultural
Differences in Software; Unicode: A Universal Character Code; The
X/Open Internationalization Model; The Ordering of Universal
Character Strings; International Distributed Systems - Architectural
and Practical Issues; Supporting the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
Languages in the OpenVMS Operating System; Character International-
ization in Databases: A Case Study; and Japanese Input Method
Independent of Applications.


Sun Microsystems
================
Order from: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
            2550 Garcia Avenue
            Mountain View  CA  94043

Software Internationalization Guide, Part No. 800-5972-04.


Hewlett Packard
===============
Developing and Localizing International Software. Tom Madell, Clark
Parsons, and John Abegg. Prentice Hall, 1994. ISBN 0-13-300674-3.


Apple
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Guide to Macintosh Software Localization, Addison Wesley, 1992.
ISBN 0-201-60856-1, $24.95


UniForum
========
Order from: UniForum
            2901 Tasman Drive, Suite 201
            Santa Clara  CA  95054

UniForum Technology Guide: Internationalization Explored. Sandra
Martin. UniForum, September 1992, $10, ISBN 0-936593-18-0.


Unicode
=======
The Unicode Standard: Worldwide Character Encoding.
---------------------------------------------------
Version 1.0, Volume 1.  The Unicode Consortium. Addison-Wesley, 1991,
$32.95, ISBN 0-201-56788-1.
Version 1.0, Volume 2.  The Unicode Consortium. Addison-Wesley, 1992,
$29.95, ISBN 0-201-60845-6.


Unix International
==================
Order from: Unix International
            Waterview Corporate Center
            20 Waterview Boulevard
            Parsippany  NJ  07054

Guidelines for the Development of Localization Packages. Unix
International, 1993.


X/Open
======
Order from: X/Open Company Ltd.
            P.O. Box 109
            Penn, High Wycombe
            Bucks HP10 8NP
            England

Internationalisation Guide - Version 2.  X/Open, 1993.
ISBN 1-859120-02-4.

Distributed Internationalisation Services.  X/Open, 1992.
ISBN 1-872630-75-8.

Internationalisation of Networking Specifications. X/Open, 1993.
ISBN 1-872630-87-1.

System Interfaces and Headers, Issue 4. X/Open, 1992. ISBN
1-872630-47-2.


ISO
===
Order from: International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
            1, Rue de Varemb<e'>
            Case postale 56
            CH-1211 Gen<e`>ve 20
            Suisse

                   or

            Phillips Business Information
            1201 Seven Locks Road
            Potomac  MD  20854

International Standard ISO 639:1988  -  Code for the representation
of names of languages.

International Standard ISO 646:1990  -  7-bit coded character set for
information interchange (ASCII is the US variant of ISO 646).

International standard ISO 2022:1986 -  ISO 7-bit and 8-bit coded
character sets - Code extension techniques.

International Standard ISO 3166:1988 - Codes for the representation
of names of countries.

International Standard ISO 4217:1987 - Codes for the representation
of currencies and funds.

International standard ISO 8601:1988  -  Data elements and inter-
change formats - Information interchange - Representation of dates
and times.

International standard ISO 8859 (Parts 1-10)  -  8-bit single-byte
coded graphic character sets.
Part 1: ISO Latin-1 character set (west European languages)
Part 2: ISO Latin-2 character set (east European languages)
Part 3: ISO Latin-3 character set (southeastern European languages)
Part 4: ISO Latin-4 character set (north European languages)
Part 5: ISO Latin-Cyrillic Alphabet character set
Part 6: ISO Latin-Arabic Alphabet character set
Part 7: ISO Latin-Greek Alphabet character set
Part 8: ISO Latin-Hebrew Alphabet character set
Part 9: ISO Latin-5 character set (west European and Turkish)
Part 10: ISO Latin-6 character set (Baltic countries)

International Standard ISO/IEC 9945-2:1993  -  POSIX Shell and
Utilities.

International Standard ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993  -  Universal multiple
-octet coded character set.


Miscellaneous
=============
Understanding Japanese Information Processing. Ken Lunde. O'Reilly
and Associates, Inc., September 1993, $30. ISBN 1-56592-043-0.

Designing User Interfaces for International Use. Jakob Nielsen, ed.
Elsevier Science Publishers. ISBN 0-444-88428-9.

Programming for the Whole World: A Guide to Internationalization.
Sandra Martin O'Donnell. Prentice-Hall, 1994, $36. ISBN
0-13-722190-8.

The Standard C Library. P.J. Plauger. Prentice Hall, 1992.
ISBN 0-13-131509-9.

Global Software: Developing Applications for the International
Market. David Taylor. Springer-Verlag, January 1993, $34.
ISBN 0-387-97706-6.

Software Internationalization and Localization: An Introduction.
Emmanuel Uren, Robert Howard and Tiziana Preinotti. Van Nostrand
Reinhold, September 1993. ISBN 0-442-01498-8.

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