Re: Internationalization & Localization guidelines/checklists

For those who may have missed the original email exchanges:

http://www.sun.com/globalization may also be helpful.

tom

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>Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 03:38:28 -0500
>From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
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>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
>> 
>> --
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> Tex Texin                    Director, International Business
>> mailto:Texin@Progress.com    Tel: +1-781-280-4271
>> the Progress Company         Fax: +1-781-280-4655
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> For a compelling demonstration for Unicode:
>> http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html
>
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>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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