Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yong Guo

Bjorn Christian Rettig

Houman Pournasseh

Rerkboon Suwanasuk

Xiaofeng Zang

Shenghua Ye

Jan Roelof Falkena

ZhongYuah Li

Mamatha Suresh

Hwi-sung Im

Hideki Ohyama

Michael Edward Lindell

Hongying Lian

A system for providing translations of applications for operation in a non-native language. The translation makes use of associated tables either existing within the operating system or at locations outside of the operating system. The translation system makes use of application based translations tables that may also interrelate with core translation tables and community translation tables, prior to sending the data to a graphical interface.

Language localization and intercepting data using translation tables

A process for migrating a system or application from a localized language to a localization independent language. The process comprises at least a process for determining which strings need to be set to a localization independent language and at least a second process for handling the conversion of the strings to the localization independent language.

Cross language migration

A system and method that simulate a system locale for non-Unicode application programs having languages that do not correspond to the system locale, to appropriately convert text data via a character set according to the application's native language. A shim mechanism converts the data in a program's relevant function calls based on a character set codepage for the program that corresponds to the program's language. The conversion is performed on a program-by-program basis, whereby multiple programs can properly execute simultaneously, even when programs have different languages and thus different character set codepages. Automatic language detection is provided, when possible, to determine the appropriate system locale to simulate via a corresponding codepage table. A user interface in the form of a wizard is provided to associate selected script-dependent applications with the needed conversion information, and/or to manually receive a language when automatic detection is unsuccessful.

Language or script-based character set conversions per-application program

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