Re: [TFUI] internationalization

John Roth wrote:

> I've seen recommendations that four locales are
> sufficient:
> English (either US or British), a Western European
> locale
> that can't be represented by Latin-1,

You mean "Eastern European", like Greek or Cyrillic.

> a right to
> left script
> such as Hebrew or Arabic (I think Arabic has some
> extra
> things that might make it the better choice)

Arabic is a "cursive" script - much like the original
Gothic that Guttenberg had to emulate when he invented
metal fonts. For every two base glyphs, there's a way
to drag your brush from one to the other; a ligature.
Then, for every three common glyphs, there's a way to
merge them into a faster glyph.

The right-to-left scripts have various rules to embed
left-to-right text; these require BIDI support.

> and
> Japanese.
> Substitute either Chinese or Korean if your company
> has
> more contacts than with Japan, etc.

You mean an ideographic script with different glyph
orders and sizes.

I would add a fifth alternative: A Unicode-only script
that will force you to fully vet your Unicode support,
without relying on locale-specific code pages.

> If you've got those, it's not all that likely that
> you're
> going to have major problems with any other language
> in the Unicode set. At least, that's what the
> recommendation
> said.

Do you have a test for that?

> The latest version of FitNesse (20040604) has full
> support for
> UTF-8,

I mean two things: 

Test that samples of each target locale can indeed
localize in your GUI.

Test that everything ELSE in your GUI performs the
same under all supported locales.


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