Difference between revisions of "Localization and Internationalization"

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* '''All letters are between A and Z''': Does not hold good for non-English words
* '''All scripts contains upper and lower case letters''': Chinese, Indian, Korean, Japanese scripts does not have the concept of case.
*'''Words are seperated by space''':Korean and Thai don't have the concept of word separation
*'''Punctuation is same''':English uses ? for question mark. Spanish uses same sign, but upside down.
*'''Text is written left to write''': Arabic and Hebrew are bidirectional. Mongolian is written vertically from left to right. Chinese can be written left to right horizontally or right to left vertically.
*'''All calendar systems are Gregorian''': Thai government allows only Buddhist calendar for business.   
*'''Characters are eight bit''': 8 bit character representation cannot hold all characters in the world.Usually 16 bit-Unicode is used
*'''Words contains consonants and vowels''':Arabic and Hebrew don't require vowels.


==Rules of Thumb for Software Internationalization==
==Rules of Thumb for Software Internationalization==
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