TECHNICAL ISO/IEC REPORT TR 11017 First edition 1998-03-01 Information technology -- Framework for internationalization Technologies de I'information -- Cadre pour Il'internationalisation IEC so Reference number ISO/IEC TR 11017:1998(E) Copyright Intermational Organization for Standardization cense with IS rmitted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/IEC TR 11017:1998(E) Contents 1 Scope. 2 References 3Definitions 4 Categories of user culture for internationalization 4.1 User interfaces 4.2 Scope of user culture 4.2.1 Mono-culture/script/language... 4.2.2 Mono-culture/script/language, including 1SO/EC 646. 4.2.3 Mono-culture/language, Multi-script 4.2.4 Mono-culture, Multi-script/language 4.2.5 Multi-culture/script/language 4.2.6 Global Uniformity 4.2.7 Cross-Cultural Friendliness . 4.2.8 User-Culture Summary 4.3 A Future Vision. 5 INTERNATIONALIZATION and LOCALIZATION. 5.1 Locai adaptatior 5.2 Current local adaptation approach. 5.3 The INTERNATIONALIZATION/LOCALIZATION approach 5.3.1 INTERNATIONALIZATION 5.3.2 LOCALIZATION. 5.3.3 Summary 5.4 Environments for internationalization 5.5 Relationship between INTERNATIONALIZATION and Application Portability.. @ISO/IEC1998 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISO/IEC Copyright Office - Case postale 56 · CH-1211 Geneve 20· Switzerland Printed in Switzerland reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHs Not for Resale ISO/EC TR 11017:1998(E) @ ISO/IEC 5.6 What is culture? (Relationship to functionality for Customization) 5.7 What is the cultural data to be loaded? 10 5.8 Localization Data must be loaded in a flexible manner, allowing future growth and providing for competitive innovation 6 Cultural differences. 11 6.1 Requirements for Cultural Dependencies .11 6.2 Script (from the process viewpoint) 12 6.2.1 Alphabetic scripts 6.2.2 Syllabic scripts 13 6.2.3 ldeographic Scripts 13 6.2.4 Script and culture. .13 6.3 Culture-dependent items and cultural differences 13 6.3.1 Character encoding and handling. 6.3.2 Writing direction... 6.3.3 Character ordering sequenc 6.3.4 Multiple forms of characters .14 6.3.5 Hyphenation, Spacing and Punctuation. 6.3.6 Expression of numbers as words 6.3.7 Character classification 14 6.3.8 Messages and Dialogues 14 6.3.9 Text length 6.3.10Spelling 14 6.3.11 Documentation 6.3.12 Layout of text on a page 6.3.13 Character (Glyph) size, Line size and Line spacing .. .15 6.3.14 Font requirements 15 6.3.15 Drawing of boxes in text 6.3.16 Icons and symbols .15 6.3.17 Mathematical symbols .15 6.3.18 Paper size 15 6.3.19 Data input method 15 ili No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHs Not for Resale