White Paper: Internationalization in GTK+

by Owen Taylor, Red Hat, Inc.
<otaylor@redhat.com>

Copyright © 1999 by Owen Taylor

Content

  1. Introduction
  2. Terminology
  3. Internationalization in GTK+
  4. Future Directions

Abstract

GTK+ provides the basic tools for writing applications that can work in the user's native language and writing system. The current implementation uses the facilities of the operating system and the X libraries and supports the major languages of Europe and East Asia. Future plans include suppport for the Unicode standard and languages written in a right-to-left direction.


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