Related Links

Related Links

Solaris & OpenSolaris Globalization Resources

• Translation Knowledge Website - Learn about translation best practice
• Sun Developer Network - Software Globalization Technical Topic (a.k.a. Global Application Developers Corner / GADC).
• Solaris 10 International Language Support Collection from docs.sun.com.

Language-specific Solaris & OpenSolaris Mailing Lists

• Solaris Fr: Cette liste de diffusion est faite par et pour la communauté des utilisateurs francophones de Solaris: elle est ouverte à tous, pour tout sujet concernant la plateforme Solaris et OpenSolaris (SPARC, x86 et AMD64 -- éventuellement PowerPC s'il en reste...).

Language-specific Solaris & OpenSolaris Resources

• Ressources pour Solaris (Français).

Testing

• OpenSolaris G11n Test Group: I18n and l10n test activities around OpenSolaris distros.

Tools

• Open Language Tools: A stand-alone, downloadable translation editor written in Java; handles XML based xlz/xlf file formats.
• Test Cases Management (TCM): Web-based tool to manage test cases and test results (login: guest password: 123).
• Sun Gloss: Database where terms and their translations are accessible.

Standardization Organizations & Online Data

• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2: The international standardization subcommittee for coded character sets.
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2: Universal Coded Character Set (UCS - ISO/IEC 10646).
• Unicode, Inc.
• ISO/IEC International Register of Coded Character Sets to be used with escape sequences.
• The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup by Roman Czyborra
• IANA Character Set Registry.
• ISO 639/Joint Advisory Committee (ISO 639/JAC) - advises both the ISO 639-1/RA Registration Authority and the ISO 639-2/RA Registration Authority on the two parts of the International Standard on language codes, Codes for the representation of names of languages-- Part 1: alpha-2 code and Codes for the representation of names of languages-- Part 2: alpha-3 code.
• ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA) - ISO's focal point for country codes.
• X.Org Foundation.
• X registry - The X.Org is maintaining a registry of certain X-related items, to aid in avoiding conflicts and to aid in sharing of such items.

Books on Internationalization & Localization

• Creating Worldwide Software: Solaris International Developer's Guide (2nd Edition)
  by Bill Tuthill, David Smallberg
  ISBN: 0134944933
  Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• CJKV Information Processing
  by Ken Lunde
  ISBN: 1565922247
  Publisher: O'Reilly
• The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0
  by The Unicode Consortium
  ISBN: 03210-321-48091-0
  Publisher: Addison-Wesley