Globalization checklists

This topic provides links to the numerous checklists that are presented within the globalization topics.

They are useful tools for insuring that you have considered key issues that will be important in each particular aspect of your globalization planning and implementation. The following table provides the link to each checklist and shows where you can go to read related topics.

Checklist	Where you can go to read related topics
Globalization planning	This comprehensive two-part checklist, which you can find in the Set up i5/OS™ with a national language version topic, provides a good summary of issues relating to hardware installation, software installation, and system configuration.
Application design	Use this checklist as you begin planning the development of a globalized application. You can find this checklist in the Design globalized applications topic.
User interface design	Use this checklist to insure that the user interfaces you create for your applications anticipate unique requirements from multiple linguistic and cultural environments. You can find this checklist in the User interfaces topic.
Bidirectional support	Languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, are displayed in a right-to-left direction. Because of this, you must take care that your applications handle bidirectional data properly, and that your interfaces can accommodate this presentation of text and data. You can find this checklist in the Work with bidirectional data topic.
DBCS application design	You need to take numerous issues under consideration when you develop applications that use double-byte character set (DBCS) support. You can find this checklist in the Work with DBCS data topic.