Localized applications in 8th

Posted by 8thdev on Feb 15, 2015 2:59 PM EDT
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Writing localized applications involves a number of issues. 8th helps make it easier.

A persistent problem in writing applications for the global marketplace is “localization” (also known by the shorter moniker “l10n”). There are a number of issues relating to it, among them:

Proper representation of text (Chinese vs. Russian vs. English, for example) Correct display of the text (font issues) Choosing the text to display (“hello” vs “hola”) Ordering the text correctly (“big house” vs “casa grande”) Date formatting (“Sunday” vs “Domingo”) Numeric separator (“,” vs “.”)

These are the principal issues which programmers of multi-lingual applications need to deal with, and there are many solutions of varying complexity being used today.

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