Best Practices for writing software to be consumed internationally (i18n)

Question

I am looking for opinions from experts that have written software consumed internationally. I would like to understand the best practices people have employeed at each logic

Answer 1

Make sure that there is plenty of spare room in UI controls. Text has a tendency to become a lot longer when translated from English to something like French or German.

Although it is focused somewhat on the Windows side of i18n things, pay attention to Michael Kaplan's blog. He is very well versed in this field, and has posted many blogs posts containing general stuff that's useful.