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Software internationalisation and localisation: practice and evolution

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 25 archive
Proceedings of the inaugural conference on the Principles and Practice of programming, 2002 and Proceedings of the second workshop on Intermediate representation engineering for virtual machines, 2002 table of contents

Dublin, Ireland

SESSION: Applications of Java programming table of contents

Pages: 89 - 94

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:0 901519 87 1

Authors

Z. He	University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
D. W. Bustard	University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
X. Liu	Shenzhen SEG Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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: SUN Microsystems, Ltd.

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National University of Ireland Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland, Ireland

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Programming continues to be an increasingly complex task. Developing new software and re-engineering existing software for the international market adds further complexity to the process. A better understanding of software internationalisation and localisation approaches helps managers to supervise development teams more efficiently and effectively. Such an understanding will also help programmers to be more productive by developing software in standard ways that provide the necessary flexibility. This paper proposes a classification of approaches to software internationalisation and localisation. It summarises them as an evolutionary sequence, ranging from the early localisation-only approach up to the current internationalisation-before-localisation approaches. It is suggested that managers and programmers should be aware of these approaches to define and regulate their development processes in a way that facilitates current and fttture internationalisation and localisation requirements.

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