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Make It Work In Turkey

Jeff Atwood advises globally-aware developers to make sure their applications work well for Turkish users. Because Turkish date and number formats differ significantly from American and British (and because Unicode support is a must), he says localizing to “tr” is a good test of your overall localization strategy.

There is also the infamous lowercase i problem

Right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew seem to pose a much bigger challenge. Besides, Hebrew localization involves date conversion to/from a different calendar, as do other locales.

As many of the comments to Atwood’s article point out, there is a staggering amount of diversity in terms of sorting, stemming, and formatting various values. Relatively speaking, Turkish localization should be a snap.