Where Are We?


In this chapter, we covered a collection of subjects about which you will need to make a development decision. For fonts, it may be safe to do nothing and accept the default or, alternatively, choose a font face name such as MS Shell Dlg or MS Shell Dlg 2. Strings require proper formatting using placeholders instead of concatenating bits of text. In addition, you will need to decide whether to use colons in strings and whether embedded control characters are acceptable. You will need to take a stance on the language used for exception messages and whether a distinction should be made between exceptions that are destined for the user and those that are destined for the developer. You will need to decide whether hot keys are assigned automatically at runtime, or statically in resources determined by a localizer, or whether they should be used at all. If you are writing a Windows Forms application, you will need to make various decisions regarding your form layout. These will be heavily influenced by whether you are developing using the .NET Framework 2.0 and can make use of the TableLayoutPanel control to move the problem from the localizer to the developer. In turn, this decision may influence whether you can perform your translation in house or whether you need to hire professional localizers.




.NET Internationalization(c) The Developer's Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications
.NET Internationalization: The Developers Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications
ISBN: 0321341384
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 213

flylib.com © 2008-2017.
If you may any questions please contact us: flylib@qtcs.net