Tools and Utilities

Dr. International posts tools and utilities that he occasionally comes across that may benefit your global development efforts. Check here often to see what he has found.

Note: These tools and utilities are distributed "as is", with no technical support from Microsoft Corporation.

Development

•	Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator Want to create your own keyboard layout? Here's the long-anticipated tool from Microsoft!

•	World-Ready Application A World-Ready Application - sample application and code to demonstrate the different aspects of software globalization.

Testing

•	Strgen generates multi-lingual strings to be used in globalization testing, (runs on only Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003).

Utilities

•	Microsoft Advanced Character Mapping Tool v1.0 for Traditional Chinese Windows The Microsoft Advanced Character Mapping Tool helps users migrate from the proprietary solution to the Unicode standard, reducing the time and effort needed to find the correct Unicode value for a specific character.

•	AppLocale A utility that allows you to run legacy (code-page based) applications on your Windows XP or Server 2003, without changing the system locale.

•	Turkish Lira Currency Symbol Converter Tool The Turkish Lira Currency Symbol Converter Tool is designed to update the current Turkish monetary symbol (TL) to the New Turkish Lira symbol (YTL).

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