Programming and international character sets.

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <532 at krafla.rhi.hi.is> kjartan at rhi.hi.is (Kjartan R. Gudmundsson) writes:
>How difficult is it convert american/english programs so that they can 
>be used to handle foreign text? [etc.]

Where have you been the last few years?  This subject area is known as
"internationalization" and has been the featured topic of special issues
of several journals, including UNIX Review and UNIX/World.  The draft
proposed ANSI/ISO C standard specifically addresses this issue (it is
one of the reasons production of the final standard was delayed).