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Globalization Basics

Course Description
This course introduces Globalization concepts on a technical level. In particular the locale, script and encoding concepts are introduced with focus on standardization efforts. The course also addresses the need for Globalization requirements in product planning and specifications.

Audience: The course is designed for interested management and staff. This course is recommended as a prerequisite for most of our other courses.

Duration: The course is approximately 2 hours in duration.

Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites.
  • none
Syllabus

    1. Difference between Internationalization and Localization
    2. Locales: a. Languages, b. Regions, Territories, Countries, c. Formats and Units, d. ISO 639 and ISO 3166 (POSIX) and newer Standards
    3. Scripts of the world: a. Character Sets (Unicode, ASCII, ANSI, JIS, etc.), b. Encoding schemes, c. Fonts and Glyphs
    4. Globalization requirements (Marketing requirements, product requirements and specifications)
    5. Compendium of various development environment internationalization strategies
    6. Question & Answer