Subsystem Utility Program

Figure 7-5 “Subsystem Utility Program” shows a special category of multilingual application, the Hewlett-Packard subsystem utility program. Many of these programs are not typically used by end users, but are used to manipulate end-user data in conjunction with application programs. They determine which language to use at run time through a user-entered keyword or command, or defaults.

The user interface in these programs has not been made localizable since many of these programs are not end-user tools.

Figure 7-5 Subsystem Utility Program

For every character set, a character attribute table is defined. This table of 256 entries holds an attribute (type) for every character.