To use an access client in an internationalized context, take into account
both Locale and character-encoding considerations.
To be internationalized, a access client must be coded to be
locale-sensitive; that is, its behavior must take the locale setting into
consideration and perform the task appropriate to that locale.
Typically the access client should follow these locale-sensitive design
principles:
- The text of any error, status, and trace messages should be isolated from
the application-specific component in a message file and translated into the
language of the locale.
- Sorting or collation of data uses a collation order appropriate for the
language and country of the locale.
- String processing (such as comparison, substrings, and letter case) is
appropriate for characters in the locale's language.
- Formats of dates, numbers, and times are appropriate for the
locale.
