Comments on: Skip the typical software localization beginner’s traps

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:25:02 +0000

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article s traps | The Localization Tool, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

By: Renate

Renate — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:34:30 +0000

Thank you for the hint. But the English, Italian and German Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_lira) states more than one symbol for Italian Lira: L. is just one of them. Pound is one of the others.
Thank you for the plaudit.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:16:35 +0000

Just to be a nitpick, but the (outdated) symbol for the Italian lira is L. (capital L followed by a dot)

For the rest two thumbs up!

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:09:05 +0000

Be careful when coding into the future with visual studio 5, as the directory libraries will encounter a bug, on files dated beyond year 2038-01-18T22:14

By: Renate

Renate — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:31:29 +0000

User interface design for localization will be a different article. Different text lenght and text orientation is definitely an issue to take care of when designing an international software application.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:55:23 +0000

A very nice round up of all the localization concern.

One point that is often overlooked is that layout can look different in different languages. For example in Chinese, the phase are often short. So if the layout is done based on the narrow design it could have problem when translated to language with long word/phase like German.