• Identifying the processing requirements for each client’s target markets
• Determining the current level of I18N support (both architecture/design & code level)
• Sampling the current code base to quantify the work to internationalize the product
• Identifying sections which need to be redesigned or re-architecte

Source code enabling is a detailed, hands-on I18N engineering service that M & R provides. This process entails changing code to allow localized data to be correctly processed through an application. It includes, but is not limited to:

• String externalization
• Multi-byte enablement
• Adding support for multiple locales; Unicode implementations
• Integrating use of Input Method Editors (IME’s) for Asian locales
• Possible data encoding translations
• Database storage requirement analysi

M & R recommends a phased approach to globalization testing:

• Localization (L10N) readiness testing to check the application’s ability to accept non-English and double-byte characters
• Real-world compatibility testing with client and hosting environments
• UI testing to check string expansion/contraction
• Functionality testing of the application’s enabled code