[IxDA Discuss] Books for localization

[Liya Zheng]

Hello Bill, 

Thanks for the pointers, I did a quick web search and found this:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/expertise/index.jsp

There are a lot of resources here. I will have to take some time to rake
through them. I will likely be doing a summary report of all of my
research work in this area for my team, if anyone is interested, please
shoot me an email and I can share. 

Thank you again! 

Liya 




-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Fernandez [mailto:bf_list1 at billfernandez.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 1:27 PM
To: Liya Zheng
Cc: discuss at ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Books for localization

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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