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Effective Awk Programming: Text Processing and Pattern Matching - Internationalization With Gawk

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Overview Once upon a time, computer makers wrote software that worked only in English. Eventually, hardware and software vendors noticed that if their systems worked in the native languages of non-English-speaking countries, they were able to sell more systems. As a result, internationalization and localization of programs and software systems became a common practice. Until recently, the ability to provide internationalization was largely restricted to programs written in C and C++. This paper describes the underlying library gawk uses for internationalization, as well as how gawk makes internationalization features available at the awk program level. Having internationalization available at the awk level gives software developers additional flexibility - they are no longer required to write in C when internationalization is a requirement.

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