How to develop a localization ready application? My presentation from the Localization Conference, March 2012, Tel-Aviv

1. Developing Localization Ready Applications
By
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2. What is Localization Ready?
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3. Basic Guidelines
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4. Extract strings
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5. Mapping and handling Locale dependant data
 Messages
 Dates & Times
 Numbers
 Currencies
 Unit of Measurements
 Phone numbers
 Titles
 Postal addresses
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6. Numbering
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7. Date/Time
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8. Spacing & Layout
• 0 -10 characters: 101 - 200%.
• 11- 20 characters: 81 - 100%
• 21 - 30 characters: 61 - 80%
• 31 - 50 characters: 41 - 60%
• 50 - 70 characters: 31 - 40%
• Over 70 characters: 30%
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9. Spacing & Layout
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10. Concatenation
Key1 = Are you sure you want to uninstall
Key2 = Community Toolbar?
sToolbarName = “Try me English”
Key1 & sToolbarName & Key2
Key1 =
Key2 =
Key1 & sToolbarName & Key2 =
Try me English
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11. Concatenation
Key1 =
Are you sure you want to uninstall [TOOLBAR_NAME] Community Toolbar?
? TOOLBAR_NAME
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12. String Re-Keys
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13. Is your application ready?
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14. Standard Product Lifecycle
 Context
 Functionality
 Layout Planning
 Hardcoding
Localizatio
n QA Design
Testing Coding
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15. Using Pseudo Language
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16. Pseudo Language - examples
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17. Pseudo Language - examples
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18. Pseudo Language - examples
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19. Pseudo Language - examples
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20. Pseudo Language - examples
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21. Thank you!
Sagi Adiv,
www.simpliwise.com
sagi@simpliwise.com
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