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Naming Convention Before a source file is formatted by the GENCAT utility, you must decide how you are going to name your formatted catalog. Catalogs that are not going to be localized may use any valid MPE XL file name. Catalogs that are going to be localized should take some guidelines into consideration. An application that has been localized into more than one language will typically have a separate message catalog for each language. A naming convention facilitates using different localized versions of files required by an application program. Each native language supported by Native Language Support (NLS) has a three-digit language ID number. This ID number can be used as the last three characters of each catalog file name to identify each localized catalog. This convention is used when the NLAPPEND intrinsic selects the message catalog for the local language at run-time. The NLAPPEND intrinsic is called to concatenate the language ID number and a generic five-digit catalog file name to form the name of the catalog that is opened. For example, an original unlocalized message catalog is APCAT000. The message catalog in German would be APCAT008 because the language ID for German is 8. NLAPPEND concatenates 008 to APCAT to create the name of the catalog that is opened with CATOPEN. Refer to the Native Language Programmer's Guide (32650-90022) for a complete list of native languages and their corresponding language ID numbers. Run the NLUTIL utility to see the languages that are available on your system.