1. A method of providing one or more text displays in a plurality of languages within a computer wherein the text displays include one or more character strings, comprising: representing the character strings within a string definition file for each text display; receiving a designation of one or more destination languages; extracting from one or more string definition files into one or more intermediate text files, the character strings in a source language to be converted to the destination languages wherein an intermediate text file is provided for each destination language; converting the character strings in the source language to the destination languages; and inserting the converted character strings from the intermediate text files into the string definition file from which the character strings in the source language corresponding to the converted character strings were extracted.