Icons

Icons

Icons attempt to be fairly generic representations of their antecedents. Unfortunately, it is very difficult for a designer to know what is generic or recognizable in other cultures. Therefore, it is important that any pictographic representations used by an application be localizable.

Graphic representations can be stored as strings representing X bitmaps, as names of data files containing pictographs, or in whatever manner the developer thinks best, so long as the developer provides a way for the localizer to produce and deliver localized pictographs.