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    • ▶Advanced Microsoft Visual Basic 5
    • ▼Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT
      • About The Author
      • Microsoft Win32 Internationalization Checklist
      • Foreword
      • Preface
      • ▶Chapter 1 Understanding Internationalization
      • ▼Chapter 2 Designing a Global Program
        • Planning a Global Program
        • Identifying Localization Requirements in Specs
        • ▶Customizing Features
        • Organizing a Product Team
        • ▶Setting Up a Development Environment
        • ▼Smart Coding Practices
          • Avoid Hard Coding Localizable Elements
          • Make Buffers Large Enough to Hold Translated Text
          • Do Not Limit Character Parsing to Latin Script
          • Do Not Assume That Characters Are Always 8-Bit
          • Do Not Localize Strings Saved As Part of Your File Format
          • Avoid Certain Coding Shortcuts
          • Language-Specific Code
        • Making Life Easier for Translators
        • Testing Considerations
        • Summary
      • ▶Chapter 3 Encoding Character Sets
      • ▶Chapter 4 Preparing the User Interface for Localization
      • ▶Chapter 5 Supporting Local Conventions
      • ▶Chapter 6 Accommodating Multilingual I/O on Microsoft Windows
      • ▶Chapter 7 Processing Far Eastern Writing Systems
      • Appendix A Glossary
      • ▶Appendix B Common Latin Diacritics and Ligatures
      • Appendix C Selected International Punctuation Symbols
      • ▶Appendix D Sort Order for Selected Languages
      • Appendix E Code Page Support in Microsoft Windows
      • Appendix F Locale-Specific Code Page Information
      • ▶Appendix G DBCS/Unicode Mapping Tables
      • ▶Appendix H Code Pages
      • Appendix I Microsoft Win32 Country Specific and Language Specific Information
      • Appendix J Platform Support for the Win32 NLSAPI
      • ▶Appendix K Locale Support in Microsoft Windows
      • ▶Appendix L Multilingual API Functions and Structures
      • ▶Appendix M Font Signature Bit-Field Assignments
      • ▶Appendix N Windows 95 Input Method Manager API Functions
      • ▶Appendix O Windows 95 Input Method Manager API Messages and Parameters
      • Appendix P Localized Editions of Microsoft Windows
      • ▶Appendix Q International Keyboard Layouts
      • ▶Appendix R Dead-Key Combinations on International Keyboard Layouts
      • ▶Appendix S Weights and Measures
      • Appendix T International Currency-Date-and Time Formats
      • ▶Appendix U Paper and Envelope Types and Sizes
      • Appendix V International Address Formats
      • Appendix W Microsoft Subsidiaries
      • Additional Reading
    • ▶Hardcore Visual Basic
    • ▶Hardware Design Guide Version 2.0 for Microsoft Windows NT Server
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    • ▶Microsoft Jet Database Engine Programmer's Guide
    • PC 99 System Design Guide
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    • ▶Understanding Thin-Client/Server Computing
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