Dr. International

Thoughts on software globalization and internationalization.

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Shawn Steele
Shawn Steele
Sep 12, 2023

Use Unicode!

Recently there were some updates that changed the behavior of a national encoding standard, changing the behavior when mapping to and from Unicode.  Those ...

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Shawn Steele
Shawn Steele
Jan 3, 2023

Using Custom Culture to Set Euro for Croatia

Croatia has adopted the Euro.  There are a couple of ways to update Windows to use the Euro symbol or currency for Croatian locales. If Croatian is the ...

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Shawn Steele
Shawn Steele
Apr 12, 2021

Culture data shouldn’t be considered stable

Realizing that people's preferences change and that those preferences impact data output and consumed by computers. By remembering the context of an operation we can avoid corruption and confusion of our data. Understanding when data is intended for human readability or consumption by another machine avoids problems with data confusion.

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Shawn Steele
Shawn Steele
Apr 1, 2021

Welcome to “Dr. International”

Hi!  We've created this space to share some thoughts about software internationalization. Internationalization is a really long word, so we've truncated the...

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