Multilingual systems and data processing systems for application delivery methods and applications

摘要

A computer application program packaging technique which accommodates the selection of a desired national language for the text portion of the program. The application program is divided into two portions, the operational code (2,3) and the text (2a, 3a). This division is maintained to the point of execution of the program. The operational code portion specifies the text portion by the use of objects, which refer to an identify individual text items. When called for by the operational code, the text objects are extracted from the text portion and used for the desired purpose. The objects are generic, that is, they are independent of the language in use. A change from one language to another is effected by simply replacing the text portion of the program with a new language.