6 International Support

This chapter covers the following topics:

• International keyboards
• Multilingual applications
• International characters
• International time

[Author's Comments: RTP supports Chinese and Japanese language in Photon (load QNX Realtime Platform-Photon-Japanese or-Chinese Supplement)--find out what this does and add descriptive text]

International keyboards

[Author's Comments: Answer these user questions:
I am not located in North America--tell me about the facilities that accommodate my needs How do I handle non-USA keyboards? (this is in QT guide except for RT clock.
Do I need to promote this as is it needed for install or is it taken care of when you install from Germany do you automatically get German chars set?)
How do I handle international characters? Support Ph UG compose sequences
What are character set translation files? And how do I use them?
What are keyboard tables? What is the difference between Western European (8859-1) and Central European (8859-2) char sets?)]

Multilingual applications

The Photon Application Builder (PhAB) uses a language database to help you translate your applications into other languages. PhAB MultiLingual Applications are applications that have translation files set up for them. When an application has been translated, the translated text strings are stored in a translation file. To run your application in another language, you set an environment variable (ABLANG) before starting the application. See International Language Support in the Photon Programmer's Guide for more information on multilingual applications.

International characters

Photon is designed to handle international characters following the Unicode Standard (ISO/IEC 10646). The Photon Programmer's Guide has an appendix explaining Unicode Multilingual Support.

International time

[Author's Comments: talk about time zones & realtime clock: establishing tzone, getting date and time These topics are covered in starting up, refer to or include relevant material]