L10N test training II.pptVIP

CONFIDENTIAL - All Rights Reserved Confidential L10N Test Training II User Interface Testing DMC 2007 PREFERENCE A L10N Test Training II provides an outline of the User Interface testing process to be followed by testers in order to ensure the smooth running of this test process. AGENDA CHAPTER I Language Style Guide AGENDA Win-Codepage and Language ID Font and Font Size Sort Order Punctuations Number Separators Hotkeys Difficulties in EU and EA Windows Codepage A code page is a list of selected character sets represented as code points in a certain order. Code pages are usually defined to support specific languages or groups of languages that share common writing systems. Language ID Different language with different locale. All languages abbreviations base on MS. Other product maybe have their own definitions. Introduce two groups of languages: East Asia - EA European - EU East Asia European-1 European-2 EU follows ENG’s standard. EA follows country specific standard. Sort Order Basic Order EU Sort Order Guideline EA Sort Order Guideline Basic Order First, the symbols are listed first in the alphabetical order. Such as, @ ! #, etc. Second, the numbers (in digital or Roman notation) are ordered according to their numeric value. Third, English alphabetic characters. DBCS characters EU Alphabet EU Sort Order Guideline Capital letters and lowercase letters are equal. ( Slovenian, Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Brazilian, Norwegian, Danish, Greek ) Lowercase letters sort before equivalent letters beginning with capitals. ( Italian, Dutch, German ) Accented characters Not used for sorting orders. ( Turkish, Italian, Dutch, German ) Sorted after their equivalent non-accented char. ( Czech, Slovenian, Danish ) Equal with non-accented characters. (Greek ) EU Sort Order Guideline (Cont.) Non-alphabetical characters (i.e. symbols like @ ! #) sort before the letters of the alphabet. ( Italian, Dutch, German, Turkish, Slovenian, Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Fr