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copied!<p>There are several sides you have to worry about:</p> <ol> <li>Compile your application as Unicode</li> <li>localizing (translating) the application, making it "speak" another language</li> <li>use locale-aware behavior, where you have to sort, or format date/time/numbers as expected by the user</li> </ol> <p>For localization the best current practice is to no use strings in your code, but store them in resource-only DLLs (or "satellite DLL") Probably best to start from here: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb978454.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb978454.aspx</a>, especially the tutorials and presentations on the right.</p> <p>For the localization work down to detail, you can check this: <a href="http://mihai-nita.net/2007/05/03/how-to-localize-an-rc-file/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://mihai-nita.net/2007/05/03/how-to-localize-an-rc-file/</a></p> <p>For locale-aware behavior you have to use special APIs like GetNumberFormat or GetDateFormat. You can probably start from here <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd319078%28VS.85%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd319078%28VS.85%29.aspx</a> or here <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/dd565826.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/dd565826.aspx</a></p> <p>But of course no answer here will be enough, since there are full books on the topic. So just start from the MS globalization portal (<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/</a>), especially the "Learn" tab, and o from there.</p> <p>And when you bump into some troubles (you most likely will), stop by at the microsoft.public.win32.programmer.international newsgroup (I know, taking someone away from stackoverflow might not be "good form", but there is a dedicated place, so you might get better answers).</p>

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