< KDE Visual Design Group | HIG Revision as of 12:21, 30 March 2016 (view source)Ochurlaud (talk | contribs)m (3 revisions imported)← Older edit Latest revision as of 20:06, 5 February 2019 (view source) Ilya b (talk | contribs) (Move notice) Line 1: Line 1: __NOTOC__ __NOTOC__ −== Purpose ==+{{Note|This page is now on [[https://hig.kde.org/style/writing/localization.html https://hig.kde.org/]]}} −KDE address a world wide audience and is therefore fully localized. Localization means to adopt language, text layout, numerals as well as cultural aspects and regulatory compliance. − −== Examples == − −== Guidelines == −* Provide bidirectional mode dependent to language (left-to-right vs. right-to-left). −* Make sure your GUI displays correctly in languages written from right-to-left −* Allow translation with [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#Plural-forms| multiple plural forms]. −* Design GUI with enough room for long captions. −* Respect system-wide locale settings (unit systems, date and time format, currencies etc.). −* Take cultural comprehension of icons (Red Cross vs. Red Crescent) into account. −* Do not localize standard [[KDE_Visual_Design_Group/HIG/Keyboard_Shortcuts|short-cuts]]. −* Be aware of intercultural (mis-)comprehension of acronyms. − −== Implementation == − −[[Category:Usability]][[Category: Presentation]][[Category:Text]] Latest revision as of 20:06, 5 February 2019 Note This page is now on [https://hig.kde.org/] This page was last edited on 5 February 2019, at 20:06. Content is available under Creative Commons License SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.