National Language Support (NLS) Application Development

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

Windows Mobile provides support for numerous character codes, as well as linguistic and cultural conventions through Unicode and National Language Support (NLS). Unicode is a universal character encoding system, while NLS carries information on date, time, calendar, number, and currency formats. NLS also provides sorting and character-type information for all the locales supported by the operating system.

In This Section

• Programming with Unicode and NLS
  Describes the Unicode standard, and shows how to work with Unicode surrogates. Describes how to specify locales with National Language Support (NLS).

Related Sections

• International Application Development
  Provides information on how to program and design a global application.

• National Language Support (NLS)
  Provides information about NLS support in Windows Mobile. NLS enables to support the different locale–specific needs of users around the world.