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My company uses an internally developed package to support internationalization/localization. However, it was developed some twenty years ago, and the libraries are restricted to one product line. I m interested in where the state of the art stands. Is Unicode the base character set for all international efforts today? Do people still use gettext() and family? If using C++, should I be concentrating on the locale support in that language?
I ve looked at the Wikipedia entry on Internationalization and Localization, which includes links to other sites and related topics. But there s a lot out there, and what I d like is a source, especially a book, which serves as a good introduction to the topic on Linux/Unix in the current software scene. If the implementation uses C++, that s fine.
For example, years and years ago I read a book called Understanding Japanese Information Processing, by Ken Lunde, and much later, his revised book, CJKV Information Processing. Both were interesting, but of course focussed on Asian languages. Is there a book on the current art that is (spoken/written) language agnostic?