Jim Blandy's design documents for internationalization of Guile: guile-core/doc/mbapi.texi --- Multibyte API guile-core/doc/mltext.texi --- Working with Multilingual Text Debian reference for writing internationalized code: (contains a multitude of info and links) http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ A paper on Python internationalization: http://www.python.org/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/loewis.html