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Writing Localizable Software For The Macintosh 1992

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Writing Localizable Software for the Macintosh is a book by Daniel R. Carter with a foreword by Scott Knaster, published by Addison-Wesley in its Macintosh Inside Out series. Copyright 1992; first printing December 1991. ISBN 0-201-57013-0; Library of Congress QA76.8.M3C39, card number 91-9935.[1] The Library of Congress record gives the extent as xiii, 480 pages.[2]

The book covers designing Macintosh software and documentation so they can be translated, and managing the translation, testing, production and cost of localised versions. Chapter 5 works through localising Apple's TeachText with MPW and ResEdit.[3] Most of the book is reference appendices: for each of 26 languages or regions, the localised system menu names, system font, keyboard layouts and the time, date and currency ('itl0' and 'itl1') resources; English-Dutch, -French, -German, -Italian, -Spanish and -Swedish glossaries of the System 6.0.7 messages and terms; and TeachText resource listings in seven languages.[3]

Contents

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Page numbers are from the book's contents list.[3]

  • Foreword by Scott Knaster, p. xi; Acknowledgments, p. xiii
  • 1. Introduction, p. 1
  • 2. A Localization Overview, p. 9
  • 3. Designing Software for International Markets, p. 29
  • 4. Writing Documentation, p. 47
  • 5. Software Localization, p. 55
  • 6. Documentation Translation, p. 81
  • 7. Documentation Review, p. 93
  • 8. Production and Manufacturing, p. 103
  • 9. Schedules and Costs, p. 117
  • Appendices A1-A26: one per language or region, from American English (p. 135) to Yugoslavian (p. 243)
  • Appendix B: Macintosh System Glossaries, p. 249
  • Appendix C: TeachText Resource Listings, p. 425
  • Index, p. 475

What this book does not contain

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It is a software and documentation book. Apart from the keyboard layout diagrams for each country, it has no hardware information and no service procedures. The hosted scan is 491 PDF pages, covers included.

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Download: Writing_Localizable_Software_For_The_Macintosh_1992.pdf (133.9 MB)

References

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  1. ↑ Daniel R. Carter, Writing Localizable Software for the Macintosh (Addison-Wesley, 1992), title page and copyright page (PDF pp. 2-3).
  2. ↑ Open Library, Writing localizable software for the Macintosh, record OL1532312M, from Library of Congress catalogue data. Retrieved 2026-09-30.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Carter, Writing Localizable Software for the Macintosh, Contents, pp. iii-x (PDF pp. 4-11).
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