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To: Badger who wrote (65986)10/7/1998 6:15:00 PM
From: Timothy Liu  Respond to of 186894
 
> the developer makes sure that two full bytes are available for every character,

This is called UNICODE standard. 2 bytes (2^16=65536) is suppose to be enough for all the characters in the world. Although I think it does not include all Chinese characters.

All the localized strings are stored in a resource file. This file is compile with application source. What takes to get a version for a new country is to get a translator to translate the strings in the resource file. Minimum work if the application is coded properly.

Tim
Just my 0.02$



To: Badger who wrote (65986)10/7/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Badger - Re: "I don't think hardware has to be localised, though."

Thanks for that input.

Re: " Intel has a whole localization system in
place so that, "

That's good.

Microsoft must also do the same as they ship WIndows 95 and applications that are localized to the respective non-English speaking countries.

Paul


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