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6.25 Support for Internationalization

Guile provides internationalization²³ support for Scheme programs in two ways. First, procedures to manipulate text and data in a way that conforms to particular cultural conventions (i.e., in a “locale-dependent” way) are provided in the (ice-9 i18n). Second, Guile allows the use of GNU gettext to translate program message strings.

• Internationalization with Guile
• Text Collation
• Character Case Mapping
• Number Input and Output
• Accessing Locale Information
• Gettext Support