I’ve come across relatively few engineers who had solid experience in software internationalization and knew about locale-specific challenges when building global apps. Yes, they all realized there are different alphabets, date and time formats, currencies, etc....
In my blog I’m deliberately avoiding the question of why go global, since so much has already been said about this topic. Likely, the decision of whether or not to expand your software to international markets is already behind you, and you’re keen on reaching...