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Internationalization Guide


Guidelines and Methodology

An application that can potentially run worldwide follows certain application design and programming conventions that keep code as flexible as possible to accommodate the cultural, linguistic, technical, and legal differences between locales.

When designing your application and planning for its maintainability, you have to balance the economy of a single code source against the international customer requirements for localized applications with regional code sources.

The programming conventions affect how you write Progress code. These are the general guidelines to follow when programming an international application:

The following sections discuss the general issue of how to structure your code and the specific programming conventions.


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