Localization and Internationalization with Diego Iastrubni
What does it take to make web pages that work in multiple languages? Carl and Richard talk to Diego Iastrubni about localization and internationalization. The conversation focuses first on the complexity involved - its very easy to forget how different languages and cultures apply to information being display. Does text go left-to-right, or right-to-left, left-aligned or right-aligned? And how does it apply to numbers? Diego goes on to explain core concepts in web localization, focusing on UTF-8 for character set and CSS for direction and alignment. There are frameworks to make this easier! Things get harder when you look at mobile and desktop apps, and every dev environment approaches it differently!
Guests:
Diego Iastrubni
Diego Iastrubni is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience in web development, embedded linux and Android internals. Diego is currently working as a mobile developer. In his free time he is an avid Starcraft 2 player. And yes, he is single.
Links:
- SQL Database Migration Wizard http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/
- Unicode Table http://unicode-table.com/en/
- l20n framework http://l20n.org/