The Web Testing Companion: The Insider's Guide to Efficient and Effective Tests

Lydia Ash

Language Guides: English and German

 

German
IME	German (Germany)
Keyboard Layout	German
Keystrokes	shift-g	r	[	-	space	d	i	c	h
Input characters	G	r	ü	ß		d	i	c	h
Unicode positions	0047	0072	00FC	00DF	0020	0064	0069	0063	0068
Code page points	0x47	0x72	0xFC	0xDF	0x20	0x64	0x69	0x63	0x68
Names	Capital Letter G	Small Letter R	Small Letter U with Diaeresis	Small Letter Sharp S	Space	Small Letter D	Small Letter I	Small Letter C	Small Letter H
Display	Grüß dich
Pronunciation	Grüß dich - German informal greeting
Unicode Ranges	U+0000 - U+007F Controls and Basic Latin U+0080 - U+00FF Controls and Latin-1 Supplement U+0100 - U+017F Latin Extended-A U+0180 - U+024F Latin Extended-B
Fonts	Windows: Angsana New, Arial, Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Batang, BatangChe, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Browallia New, Century Gothic, Comic Sans MS, Cordia New, Courier, Courier New, Dotum, Fixedsys, Garamond, Georgia, Gulim, GulimChe, Gungsuh, GungsuhChe, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Lucinda Console, Lucinda Sans Unicode, Microsoft Logo, Microsoft Sans Serif, MingLiU, Monotype Corsiva, MS Dialog, MS Dialog Light, MS Gothic, MS Mincho, MS PGothic, MS PMincho, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif, MS SystemEx, MS UI Gothic, Palatino Linotype, Small Fonts, Sylfaen, System, Tahoma, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana Macintosh: Apple Chancery, Capitals, Charcoal, Chicago, Gadget, Geneva, Helvetica, Hoefler Text, Monaco, New York, Palatino, Sand, Skia, Tahoma, Techno, TektonPro, Textile, Times Unix: Caslon, ClearlyU

Many times teams will do much of their Western European globalization testing in German so that many localization issues regarding string expansion are covered. To help with this arrangement of the work, German input has been broken out separately.

Basic Latin (Latin Alphabet No. 1) covers many languages-Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French (with restrictions), Frisian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic (new orthography), Italian, Latin, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Rhjaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish and Swedish. French is listed as having restrictions in this list as there are three additional characters that it requires, which are included in the ISO 8859-9 standard.

These languages are covered by the ISO 8859-1 standard and roughly correlates to the 1252 Windows code page that covers English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish. It is also referred to as Latin 1.

In the example used in the English table, the "H" is input by holding down the shift key while typing the h key on the U.S.-English keyboard. (It is a great assumption that everyone reading this book will be using a U.S.-English keyboard, but we have to start somewhere.) All the following keystroke inputs are based on that keyboard. The Shift key acts as a modifier, altering the keyboard input. The Shift is not typed and is not displayed by itself, but it affects keys with which it is coupled. There are other modifiers more common in other languages, such as the right-Alt key. The Macintosh system needs no special fonts altered or installed in order to support Danish, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, or Spanish.