Collecting information about the U.S. English, German, and Japanese locales and identifying the localization issues defined in Planning the Globalized PT Application and Summarizing Locale Characteristics allows the design team to identify the similarities and differences between the locales in addition to the areas that require special processing. The following table lists the elements in the application that require localization and compares local and globalized solutions.
| Element | German | Japanese | U.S. English |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code page | 1252 | 932 | 1252 |
| Character set | ISO-8859-1 | Shift-JIS | ISO-8859-1 |
| Time format | HH:mm:ss | H:mm:ss | h:mm:ss tt |
| Short date style | DD.MM.YY | YY/MM/DD | M/D/YY |
| Calendar | Gregorian | Gregorian,
Imperial |
Gregorian |
| Decimal symbol | , | . | . |
| Digit grouping symbol | . | , | , |
| Number of digits in group | 3 | 3 | 3 |