Hello, I am working on a java project, which needs to incorporate Internationalisation and Localisation. It has been suggested that the locale specific...
Nitin - Do you mean why not use the actual Arabic characters rather than the escaped \uXXXX notation? I think it's because with the escaped notation, you...
... I am not absolutely sure what the question is, but if you are asking whether you can use an Arabic properties file encoded in a legacy encoding, then the...
Hello, I realise that I should have made the question more precise; however your interpretation is correct. Thank you for the response. Nitin ... the ... their...
Nitin, I haven't tried this myself, but if you absolutely need to use another encoding for your properties file, you might be able to pull it off using the...
Hi All, I've be searching on the internet, but without any luck. I'm using Office 2003, I'm using Excel to save my terminology translations which means there...
What's the right way to internationalize strings in C#? I want compile time checking to make sure I'm not using a string that doesn't exist, so I don't want to...
for a standard app or dll assembly, if you have created the resources normally in Visual Studio then you can access string resources simply by using...
Hello, I'm trying to figured out what the GetUserDefaultUILanguage() API returns when called on a UK Windows machine. Is it 1033 (English US) or 2057 (English...
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Hi Emen, Be careful, though, if your are using bidi languages (Arabic, Hebrew). The bidi flow is not handled correctly in Excel 2003. The string is stored...
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Hi all, I would like to find out if anyone has tried using tools like Passolo and Catalyst to localized GUI Strings for FOX Toolkit (C++)? It is impossible to...
Has anyone done assessment from I18N perspective for a Software product which has never been localized/internationalizated ever ? Would appreciate any...
Anuj - As a start, you'll need to do the following: 1) Identify any strings that are presented to the user (as opposed to being used only internally by the...
In addition to the other suggestions: Review the code for places where sentences are being constructed in code, such as "Welcome " + username +", what do you...
Hi all, Has anyone used a technology called Clay-Tablet? (http://clay-tablet.com/home.asp) It is a middleware type of thing that connects several CMSs or other...
Martin I have been looking at it for the reasons you detail in your mail. I'm close to making a commitment but can't give you any real operational data at the...
I'm currently architecting the implementation of user centric time zones across our product range and would like to use the data from LDML as the basis of my...
Hi Phil, Thanks a lot for the reply. In case you decide to go ahead with it, could you keep me posted and let me know what sort of experience you have? Cheers,...
I had a question which might be rather naive. Recently, i got to know that some French such as an accented "e" has four bytes, until then i was under the ...
You have to start with the encding that is being used. In Latin1 or Latin9 the 'accented e' will be one byte. In UTF-8 a precomposed (single codepoint)...
Thanks very much, Tim. Your responses gives me some insight. Are you aware of any tool or utility available that can help me tell the bytes per certain...
Good. Another Unicode converter that I use frequently is web based from Richard Ishida http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/conversion.php For entering...
Hi all, I have a question on managing multiple English sites in a content management system. I hope this is related enough to topics of I18N to allow posting...
Hi Martin, why didn't you use the standard OpenCms localization mechanisms? E.g.: Create an XML content type containing price information to enter for editors...