  From the Publisher:Software is a commodity being sold across diverse language
and cultural groups, whether in the commercial marketplace, or as customized
applications. Developers must structure their applications so that they can be
readily and cheaply localized for sale in this range of markets. Obvious
differences such as scripts and languages must be understood as well as a range
of more subtle cultural conventions. Further topics covered include: the
overall architecture for internationalized products and an outline of an
internationalization API; the use of computational linguistics methods; quality
assurance, testing and documentation. Appendices contain summaries of the
facilities available for localization on major platforms, characteristics of
European languages, commercial tools and further reading. The book is aimed at
small and medium sized software producers, and the IT departments of
multinational corporations.
