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Just found this group. Glad I did too. I am currently working for
a company localizing a product into over 10 different language
versions (mainly European, but I know translation is being done
for Asia and Hebrew too).

So who is reading this group ??

Any students doing I18N/L10N related projects out there ??

Is there a FAQ relevant to I18N, or as asked in the previous
article, a FAQ on ISO 10646 ?

I spent last night reading a tutorial doc. for ISA. Interesting points
incuded the fact that one asian country (I forget which) has 5
time periods during the day denoted by different letters (like our
am and pm). They are of varying lengths from 7hrs to 1hr (at noon).

I worked on the development phase of the basic international version 
of the product that I am now localizing. The dev of the biv was done in
England. It has become obvious that the needs of the localization phase
were not thought of as a high priority.(ie "lets get the biv shipped and
hope the llv's will just appear a few months later") 

I think if the development had been done in a non-english
native speaking country, [and I dont mean the U.S. :^)] then the biv
would be a far more localizable product.

The prototyping of the localized versions was done here in Germany
but there is big difference between localizing a biv in parallel to its
development and localizing the biv into 10 languages in parallel
during a 3 month period.

Anyone with similar experiences?

Anu.

-- The views expressed in this article are my own.
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