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Here are the consolidated responses to the original statement from
Anthony St. John (aos@eurotech.demon.co.uk):

> It would be helpful if originators of generic software were to publish
> interface definitions for their products in all languages that they
> support, so that those of us who wish to make use of that software as a
> basis for our own applications, but are reluctant or unable to purchase
> multiple copies of the base software, can have a reference to the
> interface being used in the target country.


Jeff
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Sender: Nadine Kano <nadinek@microsoft.com>
        Microsoft

Are you aware of the book "The GUI Guide: International
Terminology for the Windows Interface" that is published
by Microsoft Press?  It contains glossaries for terms for
14 European languages.


Sender: Eric Krock (ekrock@minnie.JP.Ileaf.COM)
        Interleaf Japan

Apple's _Guide to Macintosh Software Localization_ discusses
problems posed by colors, icons, numbers, symbols, and religions
in many different cultures.  I thought it was pretty good but rather
broad and shallow.  Can anyone recommend other good books on these
higher level "fuzzy" issues?


Sender: Mike Kortelainen <mikak@microsoft.com>
        Microsoft WPG Ireland

Actually, Microsoft Press has published a book called the "Gui Guide,
International Terminology for the Windows Interface".  The first section
of the book describes the interface and gives guidelines for localization
of the interface.  The rest of the book contains the Gui terminology in
the following languages (this is the European Edition, I think there are
editions for other regions as well):  Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish,
French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish and Swedish.  Also, the book contains the keyboard
lay-outs and the country specific standard settings for dates, time,
currency and other elements.  With the book comes also a disk that
contains all of the term lists in the book in Excel and Write formats.
The ISBN is 1-55615-538-7.

I think this book is exactly what Anthony was looking for.