When your market expands to include central and eastern European languages, you have additional localization tasks. These languages use a single-byte character set and a text direction of left-to-right, but your application must also support Greek and Cyrillic scripts.
The following table lists the local conventions that are shared and those that are different among all European languages.
| Convention | Description of shared convention | Not shared |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar | Gregorian | |
| Character set | X | |
| Character set type | Single-byte | |
| Currency | X | |
| Date format | X | |
| Default paper size | X | |
| Direction of text | Left-to-right | |
| Language | X | |
| Layout of user interface | X | |
| Numeral format | X | |
| Time format | X | |
| Written script | X |