Creating global software: Text handling and localization in Taligent's CommonPoint application system

Developing software that can be used across global enterprises is one of the many challenges of today's information technology systems. Taligent's CommonPoint™ application system eases this problem by providing a foundation for fully global software, based on object-oriented frameworks and the Unicode™ character encoding standard. This paper describes Taligent's Unicode implementation and the CommonPoint text and international frameworks. It discusses how the CommonPoint system can be used to build international software and some of the advantages of object-oriented technology.