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As a software developer, you may already have some background in the C programming language, and the internationalization services provided by the C library. If so, we recommend that you study this section. All the culture and language dependencies discussed in the previous section need to be represented in an operating system. This information is usually represented in a kind of language table, called a locale . This standard is commonly known as XPG4.