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Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines / Part 1 - Fundamentals
Chapter 2 - General Design Considerations / Worldwide Compatibility


Resources

It's essential to store region-dependent information in resources so that text the user sees can be translated during localization without modification of your application's code. When you create resources, consider text size, location, and direction. Text size varies in different languages. Also, depending on the script system, the direction of text may change. Most Middle Eastern languages read from right to left. Text location within a window should be easy to change.

Use the Macintosh script management system to handle these situations.
See Inside Macintosh: Overview and Inside Macintosh: More Macintosh Toolbox for more information on using resources to store data the user sees.


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