The present invention comprises a National Language Support (NLS) system with Language Driver Identifiers (LDIDs) embedded as locale-specific descriptors within data objects. The Identifiers, which may be in the form of a system-comparable ID (e.g., ID byte), are employed by the system in several places...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6507813?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6507813 - System and method for national language support
