The Cadware Group and Localization

...or War Stories on the Localization Front

I once worked for a now defunct start up, The Cadware Group, Ltd., that suffered from having software that could not easily be ported into the Japanese market. I know that it at least required a lot of manual labor and added time to find hard coded strings and replace them with variables that could be read from resource files. I wasn't directly involved in the coding for that project, but I recall that it did require some re factoring to work in the Japanese market.

This was back in the days of MS-DOS and OS/2. I recall that Windows 3.0 was alive then.