Global C, version 3.0 from Uniscape (create single-source, multilingual and fully portable cross-platform apps)
Platforms: 17 incluuding:- AS/400, Solaris and other major Unix, Windows 3.1/95
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A powerful run-time library that enables software developers to create single-source, multilingual and fully portable cross-platform applications. Global C 3.0 provides Unicode support on multiple operating systems.

For software developers who work with multilingual text, Global C takes advantage of Unicode's added functionality and simplicity. Unicode makes it easier to exchange text files that are single and multibyte by providing a consistent coding format for international character sets.

The Unicode Standard is a universal character-encoding standard used for representation of text for computer processing. The Unicode Standard provides the capacity to encode all of the characters used for the written languages of the world, using a 16-bit encoding that supports code points for more than 65,000 characters. All Global C routines that take character input or produce character output have Unicode interfaces.

Global C Version 3.0 Features:

• Message catalog: a mechanism that allows externalizing test messages that work with the current Global C locale mechanism.
• Locale definition utility: a new utility that allows specification of Global C locale data in text files.
• Character-based string processing: Global C multibyte string functions accept options to indicate that input and output limits are specified in number of characters rather than bytes.
• Thread Support: Global C source provides a compile-time option to turn off thread support on any platform.
• Unicode APIs: provides a new set of APIs, which takes Unicode input and writes Unicode output

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