Software application development is rarely designed, built and tested with wide-ranging locale requirements in mind. As a result, there is often an expensive surprise waiting when it comes time to translate or simply support user data like complex character sets, sorting, and variable formatting. Cultural differences in expressing things like dates, numerical units, postal addresses, phone numbers, and currencies represent a whole new level of difficulty. However, when internationalization is performed effectively, software can be quickly leveraged for any worldwide market opportunity.
This presentation provides an overview of how software internationalization issues can ripple through an application, but more importantly how they can be systematically diagnosed and efficiently addressed.
Developing Software for Global Markets was presented by Adam Asnes, President, of LingoPort and aired on 2006-02-16. For more details or to download this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com
