Archive for the ‘Internationalization’ Category
An internationalization checklist
My internationalization checklist. I have used it in many occasions, as reminder, and to put some structure in what I do.
CharMapEx - Some kind of character map :-)
This is a small tool that started as a private investigation into the functionality of some Windows API, to grow into a "CharMap" with some extras.
How to test if a user is Administrator on localized systems?
On some of the localized Windows version the names of the Administator uses and the Administrators group is translated. How to test in a locale-independent way if a user is Administrator?
Mojibake, question marks, and other troubles
Dealing with the most common character corruption problems in DBCS localization
Basic lingo
Tring to help you “grok” terms like character set, charset, coded character set, code page, encoding
Visual Studio Unicode projects
How to change a Visual Studio project to compile as Unicode
String API and internationalization
What string class/API is best for internationalization?
“Reverse IME” (getting hiragana/katakana/pinyin/bopomofo from kanji)
Obtaining pronunciation information from Kanji using the MS IME API
Data internationalization
Most articles and books will teach you how to display data in a locale sensitive way. This article will try to show how to serialize or communicate in a locale insensitive way.
Customized GetNumberFormat and GetCurrencyFormat
The GetNumberFormat and GetCurrencyFormat Windows API accepts a pointer to a structure or NULL. But there is no API to fill the structures with the values matching a certain locale.