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The Common Desktop Environment: Internationalization Programmer's Guide provides information for internationalizating the desktop, enabling applications to support various languages and cultural conventions in a consistent user interface.

Specifically, this guide:

Provides guidelines and hints for developers on how to write applications for worldwide distribution.
Provides an overall view of internationalization topics that span different layers within the desktop.
Provides pointers to reference and more detailed documentation. In some cases, standard documentation is referenced.

This guide is not intended to duplicate the existing reference or conceptual documentation but rather to provide guidelines and conventions on specific internationalization topics. This document focuses on internationalization topics and not on any specific component or layer in an open software environment.

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