Books on Internationalization (I18n), Localization (L10n), Globalization, Language, and Culture
Here are reading or reference materials having to do with different aspects of globalization, especially software and Web internationalization, translation and localization, and more generally on cultures around the world.
- Strongly recommended books
- Books on internationalization for software developers
- Books for translators
- Books on global business
- Assorted books on globalization topics
- Books on global Website and Software Design and Usability
- Books on language and culture
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Java Internationalization
O'Reilly & Associates; 1st Edition (March 2001)
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XML Internationalization and Localization
Sams; 1st edition (June 26, 2001)
DOWNLOAD Yves' and Tex's Web Internationalization Tutorial |
A Practical Guide to Localization
John Benjamins Pub Co; Revised edition (Sept. 2000)
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Unicode Demystified:
Addison Wesley Professional; 1st edition (August 15, 2002)
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Business Without Borders: A Strategic Guide to Global Marketing
John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (May 1, 2002)
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Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies by John Yunker
New Riders Publishing; 1st edition (August 22, 2002)
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International User Interfaces by Elisa M. del Galdo, Jakob Nielsen
Wiley; 1 edition (June 15, 1996)
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CJKV Information Processing by Ken Lunde
O'Reilly Media; 2nd Edition (December 29, 2008)
Everything you need or ever wanted to know about Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Viet Namese code pages, encodings, etc. |
The Culturally Customized Web Site: Customizing Web Sites for the Global Marketplace by Nitish Singh and Arun Pereira
Butterworth-Heinemann; 1 edition (April 20, 2005)
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Globalization Handbook for the Microsoft .NET Platform by Bill Hall
Downloadable!Bill Hall is a software internationalization industry icon and popular speaker on internationalizing Microsoft Windows applications. |
.NET Internationalization: The Developer's Guide to Building Global Windows and Web Applications by Guy Smith-Ferrier
Addison-Wesley Professional (August 11, 2006) ISBN-10: 0321341384 ISBN-13: 978-0321341389 |
Developing International Software, Second Edition by Dr. International (Microsoft)
Be sure to get the "Second Edition". Has a big "2" on the cover. Microsoft's intended replacement for Nadine Kano's classic. Microsoft Press; 2nd edition (October 9, 2002) ISBN-10: 0735615837 ISBN-13: 978-0735615830 |
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Designing User Interfaces for International Use, Volume 13 (Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics) by Jakob Nielsen
North Holland (June 13, 1990)
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Unicode: A Primer by Tony Graham
John Wiley & Sons; (April 2000) |
Unicode Explained by Jukka Korpela
ISBN-10: 059610121X ISBN-13: 978-0596101213 |
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Fonts & Encodings by Yannis Haralambous and P. Scott Horne (Translator)
O'Reilly Media (September 26, 2007) ISBN-10: 0596102429 ISBN-13: 978-0596102425 |
Internationalization With Visual Basic by Michael (Michka) Kaplan
Sams; Book & Cd-Rom edition (Sept. 2000)
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Global Solutions for Multilingual Applications: Real-World Techniques for Developers and Designers by Chris Ott
John Wiley & Sons (September 27, 1999)
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XML Globalization and Best Practices: Using XML Schemas and XML-Data |
Internationalization and Localization Using Microsoft .Net |
International Programming for Microsoft Windows Microsoft Press; ISBN: 1572319569; Bk&Cd Rom edition (April 5, 2000) |
Programming for the World: |
Global Software: Developing Applications for the International Market Springer-Verlag, January 1993, ISBN 0-387-97706-6 Sample chapters online as well as a listing of its contents. This book is a classic. |
Software Internationalization and Localization: An Introduction Van Nostrand Reinhold, September 1993 ISBN 0-442-01498-8 |
Creating Worldwide Software: |
X Windows on the World: Prentice Hall, 1996 ISBN 0-13-359787-3 |
Guide to Translation and Localization: |
Internationalization: Developing Software for Global Markets John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995. ISBN 0-471-07661-9 |
Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT: A Handbook for International Software Design Microsoft Press, 1995 ISBN 1-55615-840-8 Great book, classic. Out of print.
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Developing and Localizing International Software Prentice Hall, 1994. ISBN 0-13-300674-3 |
NLS Information & Design Guide
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Guide to Macintosh Software Localization |
Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales: Advanced Programmer's Guide and Reference ISBN: 0201183951 Addison-Wesley Pub Co; 1st edition (January 31, 2000) |
Coded character sets, history & development ISBN 0-201-14460-3 Addison-Wesley, 1980 |
The Unicode Standard, Version 5.2 Addison-Wesley, Nov. 19, 2006. ISBN 0-321-48091-0
Updates to the standard are in technical reports |
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| Translation Engines: Techniques for Machine Translation | Springer Verlag; ISBN: 1852330570; (November 1999) | |
| Translating into Success : Cutting-Edge Strategies for Going Multilingual in a global age | John Benjamins Publishing Co.; ISBN: 1556196318; ATA Scholarly Monograph Series, XI edition (December 2000) | |
| Becoming a Translator: An Accelerated Course | Routledge; ISBN: 0415148618; (December 1997) | |
| The Translator's Handbook, Third Edition | Schreiber Publishing; ISBN: 1887563482; 3rd edition (January 15, 2000) |
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| Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World | John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471183423; Revised edition (January 1998) | Buy all of Axtell's books. Great stuff on cultural differences |
| Web Site Usability - A designer's guide | Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; ISBN: 155860569X; 1st edition (November 17, 1998) | Spool is the king of empiricism and a great, funny speaker |
| Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity | New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 156205810X; 1st edition (December 1999) | Nielsen is the god of Usability. Buy anything he publishes, great stuff. |
| International Technical Communication: How to Export Information About High Technology |
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1995 ISBN 0-471-03743-5 | For technical writers. Great stuff. |
| How to Build a Successful International Web Site: Designing Web Pages for Multilingual Markets at the National and International Level |
The Coriolis Group; ISBN: 1576101584; Bk&Cd r edition (December 1, 1997) | Read the Amazon reviews |
| The Icon Book: Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentation | John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 047159900X; 1st edition (March 31, 1994) | |
| Global Interface Design | Academic Press, 1995. $40. ISBN 0-12-253790-4 | Good stuff on UI |
| International Dimensions of Technical Communication | Society for Technical Communication 1996, 148 pages, paperback ISBN: 0-914548-91-3 | |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Currency/Doubleday; ISBN: 0385267746; Reissue edition (March 1990) | Great book on usability |
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| 42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China:
A practical handbook for doing business in China, special economic zones, factory tours and manufacturing quality |
Super Star Press (October 21, 2009) ISBN 1607730502
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I18nGuy (Tex Texin) wrote the forward! |
| Breaking Through Culture Shock : What You Need to Succeed in International Business |
Nicholas Brealey Intercultural; ISBN: 1857882210; (Paperback: June 1, 2001)
Hardcover: Nicholas Brealey; ASIN: 1857882202; (May 1999) |
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| Going International: How to Make Friends and Deal Effectively in the Global Marketplace |
New American Library Trade; ISBN: 0452258642; Reprint edition (1986) | |
| Big Business Blunders - Mistakes in Multinational Marketing | Dow Jones-Irwin, Homewood, Illinois, ISBN 0-256-02850-81983, 1983 | |
| Soft landing in Japan: A Market Entry Handbook | American Electronic Association 1992 | Japan |
| Global Gold Panning for Profits in Foreign Markets | American Management Association 1998 |
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| Language Culture Type : International type design in the age of Unicode |
Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) in association with Graphis
ISBN 193202601-0
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Essays include:
Voices, languages, and scripts around the world Robert Bringhurst Unicode, from text to type John Hudson ITC Cyrillics, 1992 Maxim Zhukov How do the Japanese read? Akira Kobayashi An approach to non-Latin type design Fiona Ross A primer on Greek type design Gerry Leonidas Zvi Narkiss and Hebrew type design Misha Beletsky Type ramblings from Africa Saki Mafundikwa Arabic script and typography Thomas Milo Civil Type and Kis Cyrillic Vladimir Yefimov Pickled herring and strawberry ice cream Adam Twardoch |
| Afrikan Alphabets - The story of writing in Afrika | West New York: Mark Batty Publisher LLC, 2004 ISBN 0-9724240-6-7 |
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| Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages | Houghton Mifflin, August 2003, (pp322) ISBN 0-618-23649-X | About languages becoming extinct |
| The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why | Free Press, New York, 2003 | |
| Writing Systems- An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis | Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521782171 November 2002 | |
| The Arab Mind | Hatherleigh Pr; ISBN: 1578261171 Revised edition (January 2002)
Charles Scribner's Sons, Macmillan Publishing 1973, 1976, 1983 |
Classic! Just updated. |
| The Languages of the World | Routledge; ISBN: 041525003X; 3rd edition (March 1, 2002) | |
| The Korean Language (Suny Series in Korean Studies) | Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr; (February 2001) ISBN: 0791448320 | Korean |
| Global Contexts: Case Studies in International Technical Communication | ISBN: 0205286828 Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon; 1st edition (August 3, 2000) | |
| Kanji & Kana: A Handbook of the Japanese Writing System | Charles E Tuttle Co; ISBN: 0804820775; Revised edition (June 1997) | Japanese |
| The Story of Writing | Thames & Hudson; ISBN: 0500281564; (September 1, 1999) | The hardcover is circa 1995 |
| Writing Systems of the World: Alphabets, Syllabaries, Pictograms | Charles E Tuttle Co; ISBN: 0804816549; Reprint edition (October 1990) | |
| The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems | Blackwell Publishers; ISBN: 063121481X; illustrate edition (March 1999) | |
| NTC's Dictionary of Mexican Cultural Code Words | NTC Publishing Group 1996 | Mexican |
| When Cultures Collide | Nicholas Brealy Publishing Limited 1996 | |
| The Arabic Alphabet | Lyle Stuart/Carol Publishing Group 1992 | Short introduction to Arabic writing |
| The Languages of Japan | Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521369185 (Paperback - July 1990) | Japan |
| Introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean Computing | World Scientific Pub Co; ISBN: 9971506645; (June 1989) | |
| Language Automation Worldwide: The development of character set standards. |
1988 (British Library R& D reports; 5962) Harrogate: Sesame Computer Projects. | |
| Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Oxford Univ Pr (Txt) ISBN: 0198611129; (July 1983) | |
| Shanghai Show and Go!
Beijing Show and Go! |
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