Chapter 21. Globalization and Localization Techniques

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Distributed applications built today often transcend one language or one culture. More and more developers and architects are being presented with the task of creating interfaces that are multilingual and with translating data across cultural and regional boundaries. In fact, it is typical that architects of a system are unsure regarding all the specific cultures a language may need to support. These applications have to be developed with a global perspective—that is, they must assume the need to support as many languages and cultures as possible. In the past, this has meant either multiple versions of the ...

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