Re: Internationalization & Localization guidelines/checklists

Thanks for the responses. Here is the list of items that were sent to
me, plus a couple others I found. Some of the sites require you to
register which I find very annoying. I am just reporting the list of
suggestions I received, I am not endorsing any particular doc. I think
it will depend on your level of experience and the technologies you use,
as to which have value for you.

I hope these do have value for you.
tex

From Kano's book (It is still online, just hard to find.):

testing checklist
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/books/devintl/S24B1_g.HTM
win32 checklist
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/books/devintl/S24AC.HTM

From Tiziana's site:
http://www.tgpconsulting.com/articles/check.html


HTML/XML 
Richard Ishida's paper "Localisation Considerations in DTD Design"
http://www.xerox-emea.com/globaldesign/dtds.htm

I18n specific to XML you can look at:
http://www.opentag.com/xmli18nfaq.htm#loc_dtdguide
http://www.opentag.com/xmli18nfaq.htm#loc_docguide

Examples of problematic XML documents (and workarounds) see:
http://www.opentag.com/xmli18nfaq.htm#loc_bad

"16 steps to globalising your website" 
http://www.etranslate.com/en/know/know.T3.html

http://www.sapient.com/pdfs/strategic_viewpoints/globalization_a4.pdf
http://www.rubric.com/local/handbooks.html
http://www.tri.sbc.com/hfweb/marcus/hfweb00_marcus.html
http://www.uniscape.com/globalization/whitepaper.html


http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/ittasks/plan/sysplan/glolocal.asp?frame=true

The 'ITS Requirements' document may have a few things for your list, 
it's just a draft, but I think it covers some of what you are looking 
for. After all one of the deliverables of ITS is a set of guidelines.
(Requires membership in group lisa-its)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lisa-its/files/ITS-Requirements


Tex Texin wrote:
> 
> I am looking around for good guidelines and/or checklists for I18n/L10n.
> 
> I found several guides on the web, but I haven't seen any that are
> comprehensive or general enough to be really useful.
> Can you point me at any that you think are good, or make good starting
> points?
> 
> Many of them are very technology-specific and bear down on certain
> programming details (e.g. dealing with double byte characters in C).
> 
> I am looking for examples of guidelines that would make good starting
> points to create a more comprehensive guideline for web design or would
> make a good model to follow if I were to create one (WAI is a good
> example I think).
> 
> Any comments about what makes a good checklist vs. what to avoid, will
> be appreciated.
> 
> Some of this is in preparation for the workshop:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2001OctDec/0245.html
> 
> --
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> Tex Texin                    Director, International Business
> mailto:Texin@Progress.com    Tel: +1-781-280-4271
> the Progress Company         Fax: +1-781-280-4655
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> For a compelling demonstration for Unicode:
> http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html

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Tex Texin                    Director, International Business
mailto:Texin@Progress.com    Tel: +1-781-280-4271
the Progress Company         Fax: +1-781-280-4655
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For a compelling demonstration for Unicode:
http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html

Received on Tuesday, 8 January 2002 03:38:31 UTC