Some facts about INTL:

• INTL works in all versions of Visual FoxPro.
• INTL makes your apps multilingual in a hassle-free way.
• INTL makes for fast integration into existing applications.
• INTL is totally configurable.
• INTL is componentware.
• INTL localizes reports and menus.
• INTL comes with full source code.
• INTL has a clean, simple programming interface.
• INTL has a clean, modular architecture.
• INTL configurably localizes interface strings and messages.
• INTL can localize fonts, images, and datasources.
• INTL is also multi-currency.
• INTL supports right-to-left and bi-di writing systems.
• INTL fully documents VFP's international gotchas.
• INTL is a breeze to maintain.
• INTL is fully compatible with Middle Eastern and Oriental Locales.

Steven Black's INTL Toolkit is hassle-free

INTL is a snap to integrate into new and existing applications. Simply do the following:

• Create an INTL object early in the application's startup
• Add a line to your baseform INIT() to message INTL
• Make GENMENUX your menu generator
• Build your application
• Voilà, you are basically done and ready to give a very credible demo to your boss or customer! 

INTL helps with finish and polish issues like:

• See Downloads for GOTCHAS, a utillity that audits your project for instances of the known issues.
• My VFP International Issues page discusses the no-nos you may have coded in your application.
• Expunge hard-coded messages from your applcation. See Downloads for a public-domain version of MsgSvc to see how that works.

INTL retrofits easily into new and existing apps.

INTL is a great component. It is both a complete black box you can use immediately, and also a highly hooked and extendible component that you can tailor, extend, or subclass as you need.

INTL is a great component because:

• it comes with full annotated source code.
• it is tuned for each version of VFP for maximum performance.
• it has great documentation.
• its classes are explicitly named for the design patterns it used so functionality is easily unerstood.
• it provides hooks for every action so you can easily change default behavior.
• it provides a number of specialized localization strategies that you can add on for particular locales. For example, you would use the right-to-Left strategy to localize for the Middle East and the Orient, or add in the multi-currency strategy on forms displaying financial data.
• you can localize strings, fonts, images, data sources, as required, with easy to configure add-in strategies for each.

INTL is high-quality source code

"...the source code itself is a treasure. I get to see a lot of source, and Steven's is among the best I've seen."

Whil Hentzen, Editor, FoxTalk Magazine

Steven Black's INTL Toolkit is a great example of literate programming. It is designed in such a way as to teach you the maximum about itself, and also about FoxPro.

Much of INTL's architecture is named explicitly after the design patterns it emulates. The result is a black box tool that'll easily become a white box in the unlikely event you need to change it to your particular circumstances.