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Abstract

Lowering Cost Via More Efficient Software Localizability

Houman Pournasseh - Microsoft Corporation

Intended Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts
Session Level: Intermediate

This 40 minute technical presentation will show attendees how to design their software so that content can be localize with a minimal need to change internal code.

Some of the areas to be covered are:

  1. Localizable content and code separation
  2. Content expansion
  3. String Handling
  4. User Interface Controls
  5. Images and Icons

In conclusion, it will show that through the use of Unicode-based Pseudo-localization tools, software localizability can be test by non-bi-lingual personal, thus reducing even more the overall localization costs.


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