jueves, 28 de enero de 2010

Windows 7 Language: A global approach

Since its anticipation Microsoft has always targeted for global customer base. Achieving such a goal is not an easy task. You have to put a lot of efforts to manage the Global Customer. The most prominent topic is to localized Windows 7 Language into different languages used across the world. Building global software is a team work.

Fonts

Language and writing are at the core of any culture and thus support for fonts is essential to supporting international users. Windows 7 Language have wide range and quality of fonts it has added fifty more fonts in it.
Windows 7 will be the first version of Windows to ship with more fonts for non-Latin scripts than for Latin-based scripts. One major area of improvement is for the languages of India.

Its always tricky to amend any change in fonts because of backwards compatibility issues. For example, if a character changes width or position, it may cause existing documents to reflow (repaginate), which is unacceptable.

Therefore after creating any change in font, its essential to run extensive verification tests against the changes to ensure the font metrics and other tables are unchanged. The font team worked closely with the international application compatibility team to ensure that changes we made did not affect the order of glyphs within the font, thus providing backward compatibility.

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