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Internationalization Guide


Design Guidelines

Before you start developing an international application, you must carefully research the markets that you are targeting so that you can list the technical, cultural, legal, and linguistic aspects that your application must handle. Next, plan in detail how your application will address these issues in the user interface and in back-end processing. Finally, select an application structure and coding conventions that protect your productivity while supporting the modularity that international applications require.

Use the following guidelines to help you assess the requirements of each market:

For more information on design guidelines, see Preparing the User Interface."

For more information on programming and system administration issues that you must consider when developing and deploying an international Progress application, see "Preparing the Code," and Deployment and Configuration."

For more information on issues that affect applications that use multi-byte character sets, see "Using Multi-byte Code Pages," and Using Unicode."


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