With its eye on the global market, Unix System Laboratories Inc says it will ship a new internationalised version of Open Look starting in August. The latest release 4i, jointly developed by Unix Systems Labs and Fujitsu Ltd, is intended to enable developers to write applications that can be easily tailored to different cultures and national languages. It is claimed to support localisation without source code modification or recompile. It also supports local input methods such as Xwnmo for Japanese, and interoperates with the internationalised XView from Sun Microsystems Inc. Unix Systems Labs will also be putting out release 4i of XWIN GWS that supports VGA boards and the Intel 80386 applications binary interface specification edition 2 (iBCS2). The Open Look graphical interface and XWIN GWS are offered, in source code form, as a bundled product in Graphic Services version 4i for use on Unix System V.4 with MLS.
