Globalization
Astute readers will have noted that I have chosen not to localise this chapter’s title. Indeed, this is my only real complaint about this book – it’s somewhat ironic, here we have a book about internationalisation, encompassing localisation, yet throughout this book, we still see the zee, the zed! A small point.
The .NET framework provides a Globalization namespace (System.Globalization to be precise). The author cuts to the chase and suggests that we can add a lot of internationalisation support simply by using this namespace.
Further use of appropriate examples, such as the removal of the Turkish Lira at the end of 2005, provide us with insights into the nuances of internationalisation and serve to confirm the author’s experience in this domain. Indeed, I was particularly pleased to discover a few pages that discuss Sort Orders, including a very interesting table highlighting a variety of different sort orders (behaviours) found in many languages.
A detailed explanation of date, time and currency formats is provided. The author goes to reasonable lengths to cover this topic such that we do not lose interest in what is a very precise subject. I was very pleased to see coverage of the security issues behind the internationalisation of domain names.
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