Software Internationalization

Anonymous Coward writes "It seems that the folks over at O'Reilly have quietly released a book entitled, "Java Internationalization". The website for the book can be reached from the Java O'Reilly site, . The authors also have a website dedicated to the book. I'm curious as to how developers are treating software internationalization, not just in Java, but in other programming languages like C#, C++, Perl. For software designers out there today, is internationalization and localization a forethought or an afterthought? Is Java the only viable language for writing truly multi-lingual applications?"