Digital Guide to Developing International Software

This document, the second in a series by Digital Equipment Corporation, provides extensive strategies and technical guidelines for software developers and product managers to create software that is easily adaptable to different international markets. It details an 'international product model' that separates core software from locale-specific components, addressing topics such as character set support (including multi-byte Asian characters), text processing, sorting sequences, user interface design, and localization procedures for VMS and ULTRIX operating systems. The guide aims to simplify the complex task of internationalization, emphasizing modular design and the isolation of culture-specific code to minimize reengineering costs and time-to-market.