How about either French or Spanish? Are there fluent speakers on this list? Even if not, can babelfish do the job? It has been a long time since I took french or spanish, or I would volunteer to do the tables. When you localize dates, would that imply any more than just translating the months of the year and days of the week? For example, in the US, people are in the habit of writing dates as mm/dd/yyyy whereas most of the world I understand put the day of month first. (In fact, in genealogical research, records always put the day first.) Also, in math, I have heard that some countries use the comma as a decimal point. (I don't remember what they do with the period.) Would this go into internationalization as well? or is my memory deceiving me? Just musing. --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:09 PM Subject: [brailleblaster] Implementing Internationalization From the tutorial the process looks rather involved. I want to set up a package containing all the localization stuff. We will have to localize all menu labels, dialog boxes, etc. and we will also have to display numbers and dates in the correct format. I think it would be good if we practiced localizing to English and one other language for now. Instead of just assigning a string to a label we will be calling a method with a key that will return a String in the proper language. What language would people on the list like us to practice with? please give your feedback. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities