Webinar: Take Your Software Global

Presented by: Jon Ritzdorf

March 3, 2011

Agenda
> Understanding Internationalization
Common Challenges & Solutions a three-layered approach Internationalization Testing

> Localization Process

Preparation Translation/Editing Linguistic testing

> Checklist >Q&A

Understanding Internationalization

Internationalization
> Focused on enabling your software to support global markets > English is just another language the U.S., just another market

Illustrating Internationalization
We color everything with our cultural norms
Internationalization (i18n): Priming the walls to accept any color English becomes just another language

Three Layers of Internationalization

Credit: Daniel Goldschmidt , The three-layers approach to software internationalization, Multilingual Computing, March 2009

Application Layer Challenges

How are defaults transformed before output?
Sensitivity for locale differences
a.k.a. Locale-Awareness

Sorting, Searching & Parsing

Locale-Awareness

03/01/11
USA: March 1, 2011 France: January 3, 2011 Japan: January 11, 2003 Taiwan (Political): January 11, 1914

Locale-Awareness

1.234
US: One point Two Three Four Germany: One-thousand Two-hundred Thirty-four

And what is this?

Italy: 1:30pm

Collation/Sorting

Czech

ABCDEFGH IJKLMN OPQRSTUVWXYZ

Ch

Collation/Sorting

Kang Xi Dictionary Sort Order (214 Radicals): Often used for Traditional Chinese

Application Layer: Solutions

Rely on existing international locale support for proper calendars, date/time formatting and collation data
Java Locale Class C++ Locale Class .NET CultureInfo Class

Application Layer: Solutions

Not developing with pre-established internationalized APIs? NUMBERS
Custom rules that are user-initiated (thousands & decimal separators)

DATE / TIME
ISO 8601 Universal ISO format

2011-01-03 16:00

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