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International Support and Globalization

Microsoft Developer Network

Your best source for international development techniques. MSDN makes it easy to find timely, comprehensive development resources including software subscription programs, technical web sites, conferences, membership programs, communities, and more.

Microsoft Arabic Development Team

This site contains guidelines, and code samples for developing applications that support Arabic, as well as white papers, documents, knowledge base articles related to Microsoft products with Arabic support.

Visual Studio .NET Localization Partner Program

A program designed to put high quality and low cost localization into the reach of every Visual Studio developer. By working with a Visual Studio Localization Partner, you gain access to localization tools, Microsoft glossaries, and discounted rates.

Office 2003 Editions in a Multilingual Environment

Links and FAQ's about the international features offered by Office XP.

Unicode and Character Sets

This overview describes character set functions and explains how to use them in your applications.

Windows Embedded Newsgroups

Provides links to German and Japanese International Windows CE Newsgroups.

Developing an International Site

Whitepaper describing best practices for supporting multiple languages and currencies when you develop a Web site for an international audience.

How to Encode XML Data

Explains how character encoding works in XML and the MSXML DOM.

Microsoft Global IMEs

A way to input East Asian characters on the web or MS Office on versions of Windows before Windows 2000?

The Open Directory Project

A comprehensive list of globalization links.

Character mapping tables

A third party reference on code-page character mappings, (Note: the last update on these were 1997).


Standards Bodies

ANSI (American National Standards Institute)
Unicode
The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Internationalization page
ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
Directory of ISO member bodies
InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards

Euro Links

European Commission
Euro currency
Microsoft's Euro Start Page
euro FAQ
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