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BSD/I18N — Internationalization of the 4.3BSD UNIX system

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BSD/I18N project is established for the purpose of internationalizing the 4.3BSD UNIX systems. Its tasks are to provide an internationalized application software development environment, support the 4.3BSD commands/utilities with multi-language processing, and build a complete English and Japanese user environments without excluding other languages like Chinese and Korean.

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Zhou, J., Yang, L., Pan, S. et al. BSD/I18N — Internationalization of the 4.3BSD UNIX system. J. of Compt. Sci. & Technol. 8, 337–346 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02939541

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