COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM PROVIDING MEANS FOR FORMATTING INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPECIFIED CULTURAL PREFERENCES

摘要

A system is disclosed for presenting information which reflects the users' c ultural preference, including language and other conventions, that can manage locale categories without requiring application programs to manage all the overhead of repetitive changes to locale category values. Users merely specify their cul tural preferences through the application programs and the operating system assign s a stack from the working memory for each specified category of cultural prefer ence, and pushes onto the stack the location in the working memory of a file for the c ategory of cultural preference specified, the file having been transferred from a local e database of files that contain code formatting according to the cultural preferences. In a second aspect of the operating system, multiple concurrent sets of cultural preferences are handled by determining whether a location in the working mem ory corresponding to the preference specified is currently in the queue, and if not, by placing a new value in the queue for each memory location corresponding to a n additional set of locale category values.