The Advanced Tools Module works with other SourcePro modules to allow you to create applications for an international audience. As part of this support for internationalization, the Advanced Tools Module supports building and serializing streams in almost any character encoding.

A character encoding -- or more formally a “coded character set” -- is a character set and its numerical representation.

Your stream’s character encoding will help you determine if you need to build and link SourcePro Core’s Internationalization Module.

For instance, if you know your stream will be in US-ASCII, you will not need the Internationalization Module; however, if you think you may need to convert your streams to and from an Asian character set, such as the Japanese Shift-JIS or the Arabic 8859-6 for example, you can take advantage of the power of the Internationalization Module.

This chapter discusses the SourcePro’s capabilities for internationalizing your streams and serialization process, including

For detailed information on internationalizing and localizing applications, see the Internationalization Module User’s Guide.