Ensure that Pre-installed Software Meets Guidelines for Globalization

Ensure that Pre-installed Software Meets Guidelines for Globalization

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  Use Unicode as the character encoding to represent text.
  
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  Consider using a multilingual user interface: launch the application in the default user interface language, and offer the option to change to other languages.
  
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  Use the Win32 application programming interface (API) National Language Support functions to handle locale-sensitive data.
  
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  Watch for Windows messages that indicate changes in the input language, and use that information for the spell checker, selecting fonts, and so on.
  
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  Use the Script APIs (Uniscribe) to lay out formatted text on a page, to allow display of multilingual text and complex scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Tamil, and Thai.
  
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  Test applications in multiple configurations, mixing the system locale, user locale, input locale, and user interface (UI) language.