Windows® Phone 7.5 Unleashed

Chapter 17. Internationalization

In This Chapter

• Using resx files

• Image localizability

• Updating localized strings and images at runtime

• Converting a byte stream to an image source

• Right to left support

Internationalization is the process of building an application so that it can be adapted for different languages and regions. The Windows Phone Marketplace provides the opportunity to market an app to people from all over the world. Reaching such a broad audience of users requires that your software can be translated and otherwise adapted at runtime to be linguistically and culturally relevant to whomever is using it. This is the realm of internationalization and this chapter looks at the techniques to make your app world-ready.

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