Professional resources

i18n blog

IMUG member and Adobe i18n engineer Sorin Sbarnea writes this software internationalization blog, mostly from his home in Romania, mostly in English, and welcomes contributions from others in the field.

i18n Guy Website

IMUG member and frequent speaker Tex Texin provides useful and often amusing information on cultural differences, internationalization (i18n), localization (L10n), globalization (g11n), translation and software engineering on his i18n Guy Website.

L10NCafé

The Localization Café is a social network, collaboration venue and information resource for localization professionals. The site offers a directory of event, information on tools, a live Twitter list feed and many other features. Launched and administered by Worldify, a Utah consulting and services company, the site came out of beta and launched in March 5, 2010. Please let us know if you find this site useful.

Langmates.com

Langmates.com is a social network for translators and translation agencies, founded and administered by a translation firm in Ukraine. The stated purpose is to grow and support a community of freelance and in-house translators, translation project managers and other industry experts. Please let us know if you find it useful.

LISA - The Localization and Industry Standards Association

LISA is a member-governed organization of professionals in globalization and related industries. Many IMUG members and speakers are members of LISA. The LISA publications catalog includes Best Practice Guides, Industry Insight, Books, Survey Reports, and Globalization Industry Primers in multiple languages. Some of these are available as free PDF downloads.

Multilingual Computing

Multilingual Computing magazine, launched in 1987 by IMUG co-founder Seth Schneider, continues to be a must-read for professionals in our fields. Multilingual's website and e-newsletter offer the latest news, views, books and other resources.

Unicode Consortium

IMUG members and speakers have been involved in the development of the Unicode Standard and the Unicode Locales (CLDR) from the beginning. The Unicode Consortium enables people around the world to use computers in any language through these specifications, which form the foundation for software internationalization in all major operating systems, search engines, applications, and the Web.

Wikipedia: Internationalization and Localization

Many IMUG members are active contributors to Wikipedia. This article offers a quick overview of important aspects of internationalization and localization, including scope, difficulties, methods, product localization, software localization, game localization, books and more.

User resources

[chinese mac]

A comprehensive guide to using the Chinese language on the Mac OS, sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, incorporating input from several IMUG members over the years. The site's cofounder, Eric Rasmussen, also moderates the Chinese Mac discussion on Google Groups.

Pinyin Joe's Chinese Computing Help Desk

This user-friendly guide to setting up Chinese in MS Windows and Ubuntu Linux was created by IMUG member Joe Katz after years of helping friends through the ordeal. The site also offers free downloads including pinyin tone mark macros for Word and Excel, a Chinese holidays calendar for Outlook and Asia region wallpaper.