Localization Including Central and Eastern European Languages

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