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Internationalization is the process of designing software to accommodate multiple locales and creating user-interface content that is easy to localize. The Cocoa frameworks in Mac OS X do much of the internationalization work of developers for them. Mac OS X services in Carbon, Cocoa, and Core Foundation help developers internationalize their software and manage locales in a consistent manner.


Getting Started A guided introduction to internationalizing software for Mac OS X.		Fundamentals Essential information for developers designing software for multiple locales.



Internationalization Topics View the complete Internationalization Reference List.
Carbon C APIs that ready applications for other locales.	Cocoa Object-oriented APIs that ready applications for other locales.	Core Foundation A framework of opaque types that ready applications for other locales.



Localization Services for readying applications for specific cultural regions.	Unicode An international standard and the native character encoding for Mac OS X.