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In todays global economy there is a lot more involved in Internationalization (I18N) and Localization (L10) than simple text string translations.   Here are the major issues in dealing with other languages in software:

The GNU GetText project deals with translation.

The IBM ICU project deals with everything.

Yudit is a unicode text editor for the X Window System. She can do True Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input and handwriting recognition with no dependencies on external engines. Her conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings. Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no need for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. Menus are translated into many languages.

Other I18N/L10 links of interest:

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - By Joel Spolsky.
• On the Goodness of Unicode.

• Characters vs. Bytes [UTF].
• What Microsoft Layer for Unicode (MSLU) Does and Does Not Address
• http://www.openi18n.org/
• http://www.batutis.com/i18n/links.html
• http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
• http://www.cijug.org/presentation/i18nLinks.html
• http://www.xmlsoft.org/

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