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World-Ready Development - Globalization - Localization

World-Ready Development - Globalization - Localization

This is a collection of World-Ready development resources (also known as "Globalization and Localizability" resources).
Please contribute boldly!
The http://aka.ms/wrwiki short URL points to this page.

Table of Contents



General Articles and Resources

Technology Specific Resources

Windows Store apps

Windows Phone

 

MUI (Multilingual User Interface)

Key Concepts

  • Learn - on MSDN GoGlobal
  • Get World-Ready (MSDN) - Guidelines and best practices for dealing with global software development.
  • Globalization Step-by-Step (MSDN) - Detailed articles to help application developers understand what it takes to "globalize" an application.
  • API References (MSDN) - API documentation related to globalization and internationalization.
  • Technical Reference (MSDN) - Information about keyboards, languages, locales, codepages, and other necessary information to enable international features of Windows family operating systems.
  • Frequently Asked Questions (MSDN) - Here you'll find answers to common questions over a broad range of internationalization, globalization, and localization topics.

Tools & Methods

  • Babel - A Unicode String Generator Tool (testingMentor.com)
  • Tools and Utilities (MSDN) - Tools for developing and testing world-ready applications
  • Language Quality Game (aka LQG) - A tool used by internal Microsoft Teams to allow the community to preview Screen Shots of products in various languages

Misc articles related to World-Ready development

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  • 15 Aug 2013 2:09 PM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 15. Comment: added •Stupid in any language (a few points on World Readiness from I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code” blog)

  • 10 Jul 2013 10:26 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 14. Comment: Added link to W3C International Blog Articles

  • 4 Mar 2013 9:14 AM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 13. Comment: Removed (en-US) from title, added tags

  • 14 Feb 2013 11:27 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 12. Comment: fixed broken link to MAT

  • 9 Feb 2013 8:34 PM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 11. Comment: Added Windows Store app info

  • 3 Oct 2012 2:29 PM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 10. Comment: Added link to "Localized names for Administrator account in Windows"

  • 26 Sep 2012 12:02 PM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 9. Comment: Fixed duplicate <a name> tags in HTML

  • 26 Sep 2012 11:13 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 7. Comment: added short URL

  • 26 Sep 2012 11:10 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 6. Comment: Add "quick search" - links to articles by tags

  • 26 Sep 2012 10:57 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 5. Comment: SEO tweaks - new title

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    on 30 Apr 2012 4:58 PM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 2. Comment: Added link to "Babel" - A Unicode String Generator Tool by BJ Rollison

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    on 23 Jul 2012 11:20 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 3. Comment: Added pointer to Windows MUI KC and more resources under "Key concepts"

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    on 23 Jul 2012 5:59 PM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 4. Comment: Added link to the Language Quality Game

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    on 26 Sep 2012 10:57 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 5. Comment: SEO tweaks - new title

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    on 26 Sep 2012 11:10 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 6. Comment: Add "quick search" - links to articles by tags

  • Posted by
    on 26 Sep 2012 11:13 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 7. Comment: added short URL

  • Posted by
    on 26 Sep 2012 12:02 PM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 9. Comment: Fixed duplicate <a name> tags in HTML

  • Posted by
    on 1 Oct 2012 3:37 PM

    Good Article.

  • Posted by
    on 3 Oct 2012 2:29 PM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 10. Comment: Added link to "Localized names for Administrator account in Windows"

  • Posted by
    on 9 Feb 2013 8:34 PM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 11. Comment: Added Windows Store app info

  • Posted by
    on 14 Feb 2013 11:27 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 12. Comment: fixed broken link to MAT

  • Posted by
    on 4 Mar 2013 9:14 AM

    Richard Mueller edited Revision 13. Comment: Removed (en-US) from title, added tags

  • Posted by
    on 10 Jul 2013 10:26 AM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 14. Comment: Added link to W3C International Blog Articles

  • Posted by
    on 15 Aug 2013 2:09 PM

    Bruno Lewin - MSFT edited Revision 15. Comment: added •Stupid in any language (a few points on World Readiness from I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code” blog)

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