Globalization documentation

Explore resources for designing and implementing software to support various languages and data formats.

Get Started with Globalization

Get Started

• Delivering products globally
• How to release products internationally
• Create translated deliverables
• How to validate internationalized products
• International laws and standards

Internationalization

Concept

• Resource authoring for global reach
• Character and data encoding

Working with locales

Concept

• Locales
• Numbers
• Date and time formats

Windows National Language Support

Concept

• Overview of National Language Support
• Date and Calendar
• Locales and Languages
• Sorting
• Windows Keyboard Layouts

Internationalization and Windows applications

Reference

• Globalization and localization for Windows applications
• Globalize and localize .NET applications
• Globalize and localize Win32 Applications

Unicode

Reference

• Unicode
• Common Language Data Repository (CLDR)
• International Components for Unicode (ICU)
• International Components for Unicode (ICU) in Windows
• Windows Regional Formats

Microsoft Terminology and Style Guides

Reference

• Glossary
• Microsoft Terminology Search
• Microsoft UI String Search
• Microsoft Terminology Resources
• Microsoft Localization Style Guides

Tools

Download

• Multilingual App Toolkit Editor
• Multilingual App Toolkit - Visual Studio Extension
• Microsoft Translator
• Microsoft Custom Translator
• Microsoft Keyboard layout creator
• Windows Locale Builder Tool