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 |