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If you can get your hands on it, see Chapter 6, International Software, in The
GUI Style Guide (Academic Press Professional, ISBN 0-12-263590-6, 1995).
Also look at Ken Lunde's Understanding Japanese Information Processing, O'Reilly
and Assoc., 1993; and Nancy Hoft's International Technical Communication, John
Wiley, 1995, 0471037435.
Hope this helps.
--Susan Fowler
sfowler -at- ejv -dot- com
Co-author, The GUI Style Guide
