In his book Solaris Internationalization Guide: Global Product Design (Prentice-Hall, 1992), author Bill Tuthill characterizes software according to its level of internationalization on the following scale:
Level 1--Software with texts and code sets that are adaptable internationally or are considered "8-bit clean" and that support the Latin-1 code set.
Level 2--Software with formatting and collation methods that are locale-sensitive. Includes sorting order for alphabets and formats for date, time, and so on.
Level 3--Software that allows easy translation of user-visible text, usually by placing such text into a separate file from the executable code.
Level 4--Software that supports East Asian languages, which frequently require multibyte code sets.
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Matthew Wilson
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is
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Levels of Internationalization
