2007-Jun-29 - Localization test checkpoints

Common checkpoints:

1. Data Encoding - ASCII, SBCS, DBCS, MBCS, Unicode, ...

2. Locale/Cultural awareness - date time format, currency format, number format, string parsing, ...

3. Text input - code page, font, layout, display, ...

Special points that need attention:

1. Strings - newly added text strings, tokens parsing, tokens with special character like %, ...

2. Dependant applications / softwares - test the server, client, or other applications in target locale language,  and the popularly used ones.

3. Special services for the target locale - the product name (may be different from English version),  Activation Code,  embeded URLs (eg. Update URL), ...