INFORMIX-GLS Programmer's Guide
Chapter 3: Data Formatting

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When you internationalize an application, you need to consider how to handle the format of locale-specific data. This chapter describes the following topics:

What are the different locale-file categories and what locale-specific formats do they define?
How do you use the INFORMIX-GLS library to convert and format locale-specific data?

It is also important to handle character-processing issues, such as how to handle multibyte strings, are also important areas in your application to internationalize. For more information, see Chapter 2, "Character Processing."

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