Software Internationalization

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 29, 2001 @10:36AM from the sprechen-sie-anything dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "It seems that the folks over at O'Reilly have quietly released a book entitled, "Java Internationalization". The website for the book can be reached from the Java O'Reilly site, . The authors also have a website dedicated to the book. I'm curious as to how developers are treating software internationalization, not just in Java, but in other programming languages like C#, C++, Perl. For software designers out there today, is internationalization and localization a forethought or an afterthought? Is Java the only viable language for writing truly multi-lingual applications?"

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xml / xsl ? by spike666 · 2001-11-29 16:35 · Score: 3, Insightful

i would imagine that by designing and implementing an application that allows you to use externalized strings, you could easily switch presentation languages. XML/XSL is just the current sexy way to do that easily.

Apple's MacOSX does that - they have localizations by language that install with every OSX Carbon or Cocoa application. (though they dont use XML for the actual string table - most likely they are using some sort of hash table for speedier access)

theres tonnes of ways to do it, and none of them require you to go one language or another. java is just a nice way and the personal preference of many.