RE: [TFUI] internationalization

While working at a big company M in a project O my rule 
was to always use Finnish locale for any kind of testing, 
automated or not, and spell my last name "Hoijarvi" to 
make sure that multi byte character strings were properly 
used. 

I found so many bugs, that nowadays I only use US locale 
and always spell my name "Hoijarvi". I don't want to deal 
with mysterious internationalization bugs in products I'm 
not developing. 

Testing tools should make testing with different locales 
easy. It might be overkill to run every locale every time 
you test, but once a day would probably catch most of the 
locale bugs quickly. 

I don't know anybody doing this. 

Kari


-----Original Message-----
From: Phlip [mailto:phlipcpp-/[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 5:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TFUI] internationalization


TFUI:

Let's define a "skin" as one of many appearances a GUI
can support. The term comes from party applications
like MP3 players that can select any of a list of
appearances, layout, shapes, and background colors.

If "skin" can mean any GUI customization - feature
set, version, or locale - then I would prefer that
development in one skin not break other skins.

I'd prefer that each test case run many times, once
for each of a swatch of skins. I don't want the Greek
locale of my app to break while adding a feature and
previewing the English locale.

Is anyone doing this?

Is anyone doing it for different locales?

=====
Phlip



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