[IxDA Discuss] Books for localization

[Bill Fernandez]

Liya--

The National Language Technical Center at IBM used to publish a 
series of reference works called The National Language Design Guide.

volume 1 (IBM part number SE09-8001-01), Designing Enabled Products
This deals with general concepts and technical issues.

volume 2 (IBM part number SE09-8002-01), National Language Support 
Reference Manual
This has lots of technical information such as currencies, character 
sets, date formatting, etc. for various languages.

volume 3 (IBM part number SE09-8003-00), Arabic Script

volume 4 (IBM part number SE09-8004-00), Hebrew

The editions I have of volumes 1 and 2 were published in 1991 and 
1994 respectively.  I imagine that if they are still publishing their 
content may be available somewhere on the IBM website.

I also remember having at one time a book of common computer UI terms 
(such as "delete", "print", etc.) translated into a number of 
languages.  I thought it was also by IBM, but I couldn't find my copy 
to confirm this.

--Bill







At 9:54 AM -0400 7/9/07, Liya Zheng wrote:
>Hello,
>
>My team is looking for materials to help us with upcoming 
>localization projects. We will be localizing (not translating) 
>software and web products designed and developed in the U.S. to 
>other countries, with Japan being the first in our plans. I've been 
>doing quite a bit of research online and found a few websites that 
>are mildly useful. Recently, I heard about these two books off the 
>U-Test discussion list and would love to hear your opinion on them 
>if you've read them:

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