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Globalization guidelines

This checklist of guidelines will help programmers design software solutions that will work in all countries, languages, and cultures. When coupled with the localization data and translated user interface elements, your business applications can be used in any region of the world.

Guidelines to design global solutions

The guidelines are meant to be applied early in the product design stage to be most effective. They all originate from real issues that were eventually solved. They generate savings in time and money at every stage of the product life cycle.

page link Guideline A: User Interface
page link Guideline B: Writing for an International Audience
page link Guideline C: Respect for Culture & Conventions
page link Guideline D: Product Structure in a Globalized Environment
page link Guideline E: Input and Output Interfaces
page link Guideline F: Coded Character Sets
page link Guideline G: Introducing Asian Ideographic Scripts
page link Guideline H: Languages with a Bi-directional Script
page link Guideline I: The Cursive Arabic Script

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A: User interface

B: Writing for an international audience

C: Respect for culture and conventions

D: Product structure in a globalized environment

E: Input and output interfaces

F: Coded character sets

G: Introducing Asian ideographic scripts

H: Languages with a bidirectional script

I: The cursive Arabic script

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