You might want to join the various globalization email lists on Yahoo Groups
and Unicode directly.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/l10n_project_management/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nelocsig/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/i18n-prog/
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html
Post your 6 questions there and you will be surprised about the many replies
you will get (I am dave_i18n there). I could write a 500 page book based on
your questions and still not cover all. I will get back to you with some
basic answers later. These two sites managed by i18n-buddies of mine are
also excellent resources:
http://www.i18ngurus.com/
http://www.i18nguy.com/
You can contact me directly offlist as well. Cheers!
David Possin
Senior Globalization Consultant
www.Welocalize.com
241 East 4th St.
Frederick, MD 21701 USA
Phone: 301-668-0330
Toll-free: 800-370-9515
Fax: 301-668-0335
Integrated globalization solutions - faster time to market!
-----Original Message-----
From: Autrijus Tang [mailto:autrijus(_at_)autrijus(_dot_)org]
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:54 PM
To: liuman33
Cc: perl-i18n(_at_)perl(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: question from novice
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 03:19:36PM -0400, liuman33 wrote:
Dear Professor :
I wonder how many of us here are really professors. :-)
For the Web to be truly "World-Wide", Internationalization (I18n) of Web
Applications is necessary. That is, we need to make Web Applications
available in as many natural languages used around the world as possible.
*1.How can a company, who has branches around the world, benefit from
I18n?
*2.For example, what should a company whose headquarters are in
Canada do to "internalize" their Web Site for consumers in China
with minimal expense and effort?
*3.What steps should it take?
*4.Does I18n automatically mean that all content needs to be reengineered?
*5.What are the obstacles to I18n?
*6.What is the role of Unicode in I18n?
For theoretical and standard-related discussions, one of the canonical
resources is http://www.w3.org/International/Activity.html -- The W3C
Internationalization Activity Statement.
A while ago, Brian King discussed the Mozilla I18N project in "Localising
the
Lizard" at
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mozilla/2000/11/10/localizing.html
which introduces http://MozillaTranslator.org/ and other related
technologies
in localizing a web application platform.
For Unicode's role, http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/principles.html
and its links (also backlinks) may provide technical grounds.
In http://www.autrijus.org/webl10n/ you may find my recent paper and slides
dealing with exactly these questions, although focusing on Perl-related
technologies.
Hope that helps,
/Autrijus/
