Ryarc Media Systems - Being Polyglot

Friday, June 02, 2006

With 1.2 just around the corner I wanted to take some time to talk about Localisation and Internationalisation (No, nothing to do with Globalisation).

Internationalisation (i18n)

We've gone to special lengths in this release to ensure that, regardless of the language you wish to use, our product will be 'locale sensitive'. Stories of software not working on non-US platform Windows are all too familiar to the majority of us who do not speak English as their first language. We've installed and tested 1.2 on Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Norwegian, and Eastern European Windows.

CampaignManager doing it's thing on Windows XP Japanese

Something that is particularly sensitive to locales is the dates. The new ticker now contains code which will defer to the system on how to display the date. You don't need a Japanese system to show the above. By setting your Location in Control Panel, CampaignManager will automatically reflect the new locale and display the time and date in the appropriate manner.

Localisation (l10n)

1.2 will be available in English but we plan to release French, Japanese, Spanish, German, Chinese and Korean versions over 2006 dependent upon demand. We'll keep you posted!

Friday, June 02, 2006 3:45:10 AM UTC

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