Abstract: Tools and techniques for repositories and related services for managing localization of resources are described herein. These repositories may include representations of resources provided in first human languages, representations of software products that may incorporate these resources; and representations of other human languages into which the resources are localized. The repositories may relate the resources to the software products and to the other human languages. Methods provided by these tools may receive the resources as provided in the first human languages, send the resources for localization into other human languages, and receive localized resources. The methods may convert the localized resources into binary representations, and build software products that incorporate the binary representations. The tools may also provide systems that include processors, suitable bus systems, and computer-readable storage media that contains the resource repository.

Abstract: Tools and techniques for unified formats for resources and repositories for managing localization are described herein. The unified resource repositories may include representations of any number of resources, the resources representing textual information that is displayable in user interface presented by software applications. The representations of the resources may include respective data tags that are associated with name attributes identifying the resources, value tags providing values of the resources. Meta tags provide recursive nesting mechanisms for associating the name attribute and the value tag with additional instances of name attributes and value tags.

Abstract: Tools and techniques for repositories and related services for managing localization of resources are described herein. These repositories may include representations of resources provided in first human languages, representations of software products that may incorporate these resources; and representations of other human languages into which the resources are localized. The repositories may relate the resources to the software products and to the other human languages. Methods provided by these tools may receive the resources as provided in the first human languages, send the resources for localization into other human languages, and receive localized resources. The methods may convert the localized resources into binary representations, and build software products that incorporate the binary representations. The tools may also provide systems that include processors, suitable bus systems, and computer-readable storage media that contains the resource repository.

Abstract: Tools and techniques for unified formats for resources and repositories for managing localization are described herein. The unified resource repositories may include representations of any number of resources, the resources representing textual information that is displayable in user interface presented by software applications. The representations of the resources may include respective data tags that are associated with name attributes identifying the resources, value tags providing values of the resources. Meta tags provide recursive nesting mechanisms for associating the name attribute and the value tag with additional instances of name attributes and value tags.

Abstract: A system and method for storing and retrieving the written or spoken equivalents for numbers. In order to handle different representation of numbers, including spoken or written representations, the recurring patterns are expressed based on the radix of the system using sub-patterns. The patterns may be indexed to a vocabulary of text strings, then used to generate the text equivalent of any number within the range of the pattern. A database may store the patterns and vocabularies for one or many different languages. Such a system captures the complexities and exceptions in the spoken tongue while keeping the size of the database, even for large numbers of languages, in a very compact size.

Abstract: A system and method for modifying a cultural database that is used by a computer application to drive culture-specific and language-specific functional aspects of the program. After defining a set of cultural parameters for program behavior and storing the parameters in a database, support for new cultures or languages, or modification and maintenance of existing cultures or languages, may be done through adding or manipulating data in the database.

Abstract: A system and method for culturally-neutral computer applications wherein cultural and language functional differences are used to branch the computer application. Functional cultural differences are identified and branches or program options for the differences are coded into the executable application. When a branch is encountered, a data setting is referenced to determine the proper branch.