Hi.

I am about to embark on a large asp.net project and I have a few basic
globalisation questions that I would appreciate help with.

1. Does one need to cater for 'vertical' languages (Japanese, Korean,
Chinese, etc) or are there simplified versions that can be displayed
horizontally?

2. How does sorting work for right-to-left languages? Is this
functionality built into the .net framework?

3. How does 'like' searches work for right-to-left languages? Does the
search criteria need to be stored twice; once for right-to-left and
once for left-to-right?

4. How does one handle decimal points in multi language applications.
E.g. in French 10,45 is the US equivalent of 10.45

Thanks for any help you can offer.
Johnny

I will try to give short answers, so they may not be 100% right in all cases.
For such questions the correct answer is "it depends," but this is not going
to help you too much.
So, guys, don't jump on me. One can probably write a full chapter for each
question :-)

high-tech DTP application.
And I don't think you would do this with ASP.NET :-)


There is no left-to-right or right-to-left for data storage and processing.
All is stored in "logical order," as opposed to "visual order."
The right-to-left is just a rendering issue.

System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo

And start by visiting www.microsoft.com/globaldev
and, in the Dev.Studio help (MSDN) TOC see
..NET Development -> .NET Framework SDK -> Programming with the .NET Framework
-> Developing World-Ready Applications

Than come back here and ask when you get stuck :-)

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Mihai Nita [Microsoft MVP, Windows - SDK]
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