Creating International Applications Index

This section discusses guidelines for writing applications that you plan to distribute to an international market. By planning ahead, you can reduce the amount of time and code necessary to make your application function in its foreign market as well as in its domestic market.

Topics

• Internationalization and Localization
  • Internationalizing Applications
    • Enabling Application Code to Work for Different Locales
      • Character Sets
      • Including Bi-directional Functionality in Applications
      • Locale-specific Features
  • Localizing Applications
    • Localization Considerations in UI Design
      • Text
      • Graphic Images
      • Formats and Sort Order
      • Keyboard Mappings
    • Isolating Resources
    • Using Resource DLLs
      • Creating Resource DLLs
      • Dynamic Switching of Resource DLLs
• Deploying Localized Applications

See Also

• Localizing Applications by Using Translation Manager

• Topic Indexes
• Windows Developer's Guide
• Delphi
• C++