Developing International Software

In today�s global economy, there are clear advantages to developing
applications that can meet the needs of users across a wide variety of
languages, countries, and cultures. Discover how to develop for the
whole world with the second edition of this classic guide�now
completely revised and updated to cover the latest techniques and
insights, and designed for anyone who wants to write world-ready code
for the Microsoft� Windows� 2000 and Windows XP platforms. It explains
how to localize applications easily and inexpensively, determine
important culture-specific issues, avoid international pitfalls and
legal issues, use the best available technologies and coding practices,
and more. It covers all of the essentials for developing international
software�while revealing the hard-earned collective wisdom of the
Microsoft international teams. Topics covered include:

� Introduction: Understanding internationalization and designing a world-ready program
� Globalization: Unicode; locale and cultural awareness; text input, output, and display; multilingual user interface (MUI)
� Localizability: Software localizability guidelines, mirroring, and content localizability guidelines
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Localization and testing: Localization, testing for world-readiness,
sample international test cases, and testing localizability with
pseudolocalization
� Tools and technologies: Graphics Device
Interface Plus (GDI+), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Microsoft
Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Office, MLang, Microsoft
Layer for Unicode (MSLU), The Microsoft .NET Framework, OpenType�
Fonts, RichEdit, Microsoft SQL Server�, Text Services Framework (TSF),
Uniscribe, Microsoft Visual Studio� .NET, Extensible Markup Language
(XML)





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