Why Internationalize your code before translation?

Subject: Why Internationalize your code before translation?
From: "Maxwell Hoffmann" <mhoffmann -at- globalizationpartners -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:10:42 -0700

For anyone who works with user interface of code strings in software that
may eventually be localized for another language, you might benefit from a
blog that a co-worker of mine wrote on this topic:
http://bit.ly/gpi-i18n

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Maxwell  Hoffmann
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References:
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