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copied!<p>After <a href="http://www.kudzuworld.com/Bio.EN.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Kudzu</a>'s <a href="http://www.woo-hoo.net/abstracts/Arch_Localization.aspx" rel="noreferrer">talk about l10N</a> I left the room with way more questions then I had before and none of my old questions answered. But it gave me something to think about and brought the message "depends on how far you can/want to go" accross.</p> <ul> <li>Translate text bodies with aforementioned things</li> <li>Test all your controls for length/alignment in LTR/RTL, TTB(TopToBottom) BTT and all it's combinations.</li> <li>Look out for special characters and encodings</li> <li>Look out for combinations of different alignments (LTR, RTL, TTB, BTT) and how they effect punctuation and quotation signs.</li> <li>Align controls according to text alignment (Hebrew Win has its start menu at the right</li> <li>Take string lengths into account. They can overflow in other languages.</li> <li>Put labels at the correct side of icons (LTR, TTB etc)</li> <li>Translate language selection controls</li> <li>No texts in images (can't be translated)</li> <li>Translate EVERYTHING (headers, logos, some languages use different brand names, product names etc)</li> <li>Does the region have a 24:00 or a 00:00 (changes the AM/PM that goes with it too)</li> <li>Does the region use AM/PM or the 24:00 system</li> <li>What calendar system are they using</li> <li>What digit is for what part of the date (day, month, year in all its combinations)</li> <li>Try to avoid "copying [number] files" equivalents. Some regions have different rules about changing words according to quantities. (This is an extremely complicated topic that I will elaborate on if desired)</li> <li>Translate sentences, not words. Syntax rules are too complicated to put in your business logic.</li> <li>Don't use flags for regions. Languages != countries</li> <li>Consider what languages / dialects you can support (e.g. India has a gazillion of languages)</li> <li>Encoding</li> <li>Cultural rules (some western images displaying business woman can be near offensive in some other cultures)</li> <li>Look out for language generalizations (e.g. boot(UK) != boot(US))</li> </ul> <p>Those are the ones from the top of my head. The list just went on and on...</p>

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