Internationalization

10 Mar 2007 3:43 PM

Rasheed

All,

We are looking for coding standards/guidelines for applications that would
be internationalized in future

Examples

-          All characters and strings in the code (for comparing or
condition-checking) should be externalized, so that they can be replaced by a
new set if the application has to serve non-English input data

-          Formatting date and times, currency, decimals

-          International addresses

-          Encoding and storing data in UTF8

-          Usage of resource bundles

Any inputs/links on the above would be heplful. Appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance,
Rasheed

10 Mar 2007 4:35 PM

Oliver Sturm

Hello Rasheed,

>We are looking for coding standards/guidelines for applications that would
>be internationalized in future

There's a very good summary here:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getwr/steps/wrguide.mspx

MSDN also has lots of docs, including of course the whole .NET Framework
reference. Search for terms like "globalization" and you should find loads.

There's also a newsgroup called
"microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization" on the same server as this
one.

Oliver Sturm

--
http://www.sturmnet.org/blog

11 Mar 2007 3:48 AM

Rasheed

Hi Oliver,

Your feedback is very useful. I sincerely appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Rasheed

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"Oliver Sturm" wrote:

> Hello Rasheed,
>
> >We are looking for coding standards/guidelines for applications that would
> >be internationalized in future
>
> There's a very good summary here:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/getwr/steps/wrguide.mspx
>
> MSDN also has lots of docs, including of course the whole .NET Framework
> reference. Search for terms like "globalization" and you should find loads.
>
> There's also a newsgroup called
> "microsoft.public.dotnet.internationalization" on the same server as this
> one.
>
>
> Oliver Sturm
> --
> http://www.sturmnet.org/blog
>