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Localization Books Review

Written by Vision

Sunday, 22 April 2007

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Title & Notes

YUNKER John, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies, New Riders Press, 2002 (Amazon:

)

Notes
o Nice Market Intelligence (Pg 22)
o One of the editor is from LionBridge
o Babel example (CDROM)
o Process Checklist (pg 123)
o Team Organisation (pg 131, 198)
o Computer-aided Translation (Pg 219)
o How different nationalities perceived the meaning of different colors (Pg 483)
o International Notation Standards (Pg 517)

SINGH Nitish, PEREIRA Arun, The Culturally Customized Web Site: Customizing Web Sites for the Global Marketplace, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005 (Amazon:

)

Notes
o Book is based on a 4-year research on various aspects of e-commerce, culture, and online consumer behavior (Pg ix).
o Five categories of "Website Globalization" (Pg 10): Standardized; Semi-Localized; Localized; Highly Localized; Culturally Customized.
o Statistics on 5-cat Website Globalization (Pg 19)
o Cultural Values Framework for Web design (Pg 54, 59):
- CV1. Individualism-Collectivism (Pg 71)
- CV2. Power Distance (Pg 111)
- CV3. Uncertainity-Avoidance (Pg 93)
- CV4. Masculinity-Femininity (Pg 125)
- CV5. Low-High Context (Pg 139)
- Country Scores on Hofstede's Cultural Values (Pg 63): China, Japan, Korea, US, CA, SG
o 3x2 Matrix on "Global Segment and Website Customization"
o Great list of references for each chapters
o Fabulous snapshots of numerous websites

INTERNATIONAL Dr, Developing International Software, Second Edition, Microsoft Press, 2002 (Amazon:

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Notes
o Comes with an e-Book (facilitate quick search of text)
o Microsoft's solo view on the hierarchy of G10N, L11N and I18N.
o Microsoft's 7 levels of Localization (Pg 11)
o Localization Process (Pg 13)
o Content Localizatibility Guidelines (Pg 307)
o International Best Practices for Unicode usage
o Very detailed Conventions per Locale (Appendix B, Pg 541): Chinese (Pg 567-571), Japanese (Pg 618), Korean (Pg 622)
o Risky Characters (Appendix N, Pg 875)
o International Keyboard Layouts (Appendix Q, Pg 909): Chinese (Pg 916-917), Japanese (Pg 934-935), Korean (Pg 963)
o International Address Format (Appendix S, Pg 965)
o Preparing a Business Case to Develop International Software (Appendix W, Pg 1001)

Localization Industry Standards Association, Globalization Industry Primer, 2007.

Notes
o "How big is the globalization industry?" (Pg 8)
o "The Global Product Development Cycle for Software" (Pg 27)
o "Outsourcing of globalization-related tasks by clients) (Pg 32)

SMITH-FERRIER Guy, .NET Internationalization: The Developer's Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006 (Amazon:

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Notes
o Very detailed walkthrough on localization using .Net
o Machine Translation into Software (Pg 299 )
o Good Information Resources (Appendix A)

DEITSCH Andy, CZARNECKI David, Java Internationalization, O'Reilly Media, 2001 (Amazon:

)

Notes
o Industry view on the hierarchy of G10N, L11N and I18N.
o Good definition on G10N, I18N, L11N (Pg 6)
o Good into to "Writing Systems" (Pg 17)
o Good coverage on DATE-TIME-NUM formatting (Pg 93)
o Great list of "Language and Country Code" (Pg 357)

SAVOUREL Yves, XML Internationalization and Localization, Sams, 2001 (Amazon:

)

Notes
o Essential for L10N/I18N of XML applications
o Good list of "Encoding declaration" (Appendix B)
o Corresponding Unicode sections & language (Appendix C)
o Language Codes: 2d/4d code, script, code set (Appendix D)

CHANDLER Heather, The Game Localization Handbook, Charles River Media, 2004

Notes
o Concept of "No L10N", "Partial L10N" and "Full L10N" (Pg 12)
o Good Compilation of Checklists
o Localization Pitfalls (Pg 287)
o Various mini case studies

KAPLAN Michael, Internationalization with Visual Basic, Sams, 2000 (Amazon:

)

Notes
o Definition of Internationalization, Multinationalization (M18N) and Localization (Pg 8)
o Extending Web Applications with VB Components and Services (Pg 441)
o 6 Language Tiers viz a viz complexity (Pg 487)