Multilingual information technology
- Resource Type
- Academic Journal
- Authors
- Appleby, S
- Source
- BT Technology Journal. Jan 01, 2003 21(1):75-83
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1358-3948
The ubiquity of the World Wide Web has made linguistic barriers all the more obvious. Consequently there is more motivation than ever to produce applications and services that are multilingual. Making an application work in different languages and countries requires planning from the outset and attention to the engineering details throughout design and development. This paper discusses some of the issues involved in building multilingual applications. It also focuses on the particular problems of displaying text in some of the more complex scripts. Some of the issues and approaches to automatic translation are also described.