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asp.net-mvc-3localizationinternationalizationcjk
Romias
Romias

Reputation: 14133

Things to take into account when internationalizing web app to handle chinese language

I have a MVC3 web app with i18n in 4 latin languages... but I would like to add CHINESE in the future.

I'm working with standard resource file.

Any tips?

EDIT: Anything about reading direction? Numbers? Fonts?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 256

Answers (1)

Dario Solera
Dario Solera

Reputation: 5804

I would start with these observations:

  • Chinese is a non-character-based language, meaning that a search engine (if needed) must not use only punctuation and whitespace to find words (basically, each character is a word); also, you might have mixed Latin and Chinese words
  • make sure to use UTF-8 for all your HTML documents (.resx files are UTF-8 by default)
  • make sure that your database collation supports Chinese - or use a separate database with an appropriate collation
  • make sure you don't reverse strings or do other unusual text operations that might break with multi-byte characters
  • make sure you don't call ToLower and ToUpper to check user-input text because again this might break with other alphabets (or rather scripts) - aka the Turkey Test

To test for all of the above and other possible issues, a good way is pseudolocalization.

Upvotes: 1

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