Designing an Access client for internationalization
To use an access client in an internationalized context,
take into account both Locale and character-encoding considerations.
Locale 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.
