International Scenario Summary
In the fictional scenarios used in this section, Contoso, Ltd. is a large international trading company. The company has both retail and wholesale operations and they have developed Web-based interfaces to each of these areas of their business. Their Web sites are www.contosoretail.com and www.contososupplier.com.
Contoso needed to create a single Web site for all of their retail users to browse, regardless of their language and currency settings. They decided to provide content in five languages (English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese). The following list describes some of the specific steps Contoso took in order to create a single site for their international users:
- Create a single catalog that contains multilingual and multicurrency properties for all of their products. Establish a localization process for updating these properties.
- Develop discount messages, advertising content, and direct mail messages appropriate for each of the five languages.
- Develop shipping methods for each of the five languages.
- Add code to their default.asp page to determine if the user is using a browser that does not support UTF-8 encoding. Since Contoso requires their users to use a browser that supports UTF-8 encoding, if they detect such a browser, they will redirect the user to a page where the user can download a browser that supports UTF-8 encoding.
- Add code to their site to retrieve the language of the user and currency preference from the user profile.
- Add strings to an XML file for each of the five languages, and site code to retrieve strings in the language that matches the user profile property for language and currency preferences.
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