Globalization documentation

With growing software demands all over the world, you should design and implement software to support various languages and data formats.

Get Started with Globalization

Get Started

• Global product delivery
• International design
• Localizability
• Localization
• Quality assurance for world-readiness
• International laws and standards

Windows National Language Support

Concept

• Overview of National Language Support
• Date and Calendar
• Locales and Languages
• Sorting
• Windows Keyboard Layouts

Internationalization and Windows applications

Reference

• Globalization and localization for Windows applications
• Globalize and localize .NET applications
• Globalize and localize Win32 Applications

Unicode

Reference

• Unicode
• Common Language Data Repository (CLDR)
• International Components for Unicode (ICU)
• International Components for Unicode (ICU) in Windows

Microsoft Terminology and Style Guides

Reference

• Glossary
• Microsoft language portal
• Microsoft Terminology Glossary
• Microsoft Localization Style Guides

Tools

Download

• Multilingual App Toolkit Editor
• Multilingual App Toolkit - Visual Studio Extension
• Microsoft Translator
• Microsoft Custom Translator
• Bing Translator Widget
• Microsoft Keyboard layout creator
• Windows Locale Builder Tool