 | XML Internationalization and Localization by Yves Savourel
Buy new: $43.79 / Used from: $1.75 XML is the future, and no one understands its multilingual implications better than Yves Savourel.
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 | Java Internationalization (Java Series) by David Czarnecki
Buy new: $29.16 / Used from: $0.50 Like Lunde's CJKV, highly specialized, but essential for Java engineers.
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 | CJKV Information Processing by Ken Lunde
Buy used from: $2.82 The bible of coding for multi-byte Asian languages.
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 | Global Solutions for Multilingual Applications: Real-World Techniques for Developers and Designers by Chris Ott
Buy used from: $0.01 The best one-book introduction, necessarily dated in its references to tools and OSes, but thorough and readable.
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 | International Technical Communication: How to Export Information about High Technology (Wiley Technical Communications Library) by Nancy L. Hoft
Buy used from: $3.76 Localization is also about documents. Essential book for technical writers in global companies. Hoft covers topics seldom mentioned in more engineering-centered books.
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 | International User Interfaces
Buy new: $79.52 / Used from: $18.66 Collection of essays on pretty focused technical subjects, but with some gems of information on international communication and usability issues.
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 | Internationalization With Visual Basic (Sams White Book Series) by Michael S. Kaplan
Buy used from: $21.24 For years, Visual Basic was to localization as acid rain was to gardening. A survival guide.
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 | Unicode: A Primer by Tony Graham
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $0.94 The "Primer" series is excellent for intelligent, non-patronizing introductions. This one will walk you through Unicode. Get the XML one, too.
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 | Xml: A Primer (Professional mindware) by Simon St. Laurent
Buy used from: $8.23 Yeah, this one. Not a localization book, but a succinct, readable introduction to the technology that will run multilingual information delivery. Elizabeth Castro for "how-to," St. Laurent for why.
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 | Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $5.99 Localization requires some understanding of how natural languages work. Hofstadter will take you there with this great cathedral dedicated to translation.
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 | The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $0.01 Globalization, like translation, is a larger topic. Thomas Friedman offers the best introduction to the new global economy.
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