Programming considerations in globalized application design

As you develop your globalized applications, the national language version environment often requires that you pay additional attention to how you prepare and compile your code.

• Code globalized applications with high-level languages
  Your major goal must be to have only one general set of running code that is common for all language versions and to make your programs table-driven as much as possible.
• Code globalized applications that use bidirectional data
  When you are developing NLV-enabled applications, consider these restrictions in this topic.
• Use message catalogs
  The operating system can use message catalogs to store messages. Messages in a message catalog are grouped as sets. Each message has a unique number within a set. You can create a message catalog as a stream file, a source file member, or a user space object type from one or more source files.