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1. WinRT Apps
29 April 2014
Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1 Jump Start

5. Afrikaans
Basque (Basque)
Galician
Hausa
26 new languages were added with Windows Phone 8
50 languages supported in4 new languages added in

6. See Details Here:
http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/06/21/tips-for-localizing-and-monetizing-your-app-for-windows-phone-users.aspx
Top primary user languages for all app downloaded (Jan-Jun 2013)
Offering your app in English only covers only 25% of Windows Phone users. Adding Mandarin and Spanish
increases coverage to ~60%, and adding Russian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), and French covers the large
majority of all Windows Phone users.

7. See Details Here:
http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2013/06/21/tips-for-localizing-and-monetizing-your-app-for-windows-phone-users.aspx
Number of app downloads per market, Jan-Jun 2013

9. Add multiple languages to phone
All 54 supported UI languages to be pre-installed on most phones
Enable multiple languages and sort them by order of preference
Languages will be listed by locale, enabling Region format to
automatically match phone language
Add languages which are not currently supported for UI, to be used
for apps and services which support that language
Continue to auto-download language packs, containing text
prediction and speech files, to align with selected languages

13. <TextBlock x:Uid="Greeting" Text="" />
Read resource strings from code also:
Use resource strings from XAML:
var loader = new Windows.ApplicationModel.Resources.ResourceLoader();
var string = loader.GetString('Farewell');

16. Easy to use localization tool for WP SDK
Integrates with Visual Studio 2013 with Windows Phone SDK to provide Windows
Phone Store apps with translation support, translation file management, and
localization editing
Helps to verify and note changes in resources over time
Provides a UI for choosing languages
Supports the localization industry-standard XLIFF file format
Provides a pseudo-language engine to identify translation issues
at development
Connects with the Microsoft Translator for quick translation
suggestions
Quickly expand your customer base and markets with added languages

22. // Use the Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.DateTimeFormatter class
// to display dates and times using basic formatters.
var sdatefmt = new Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.DateTimeFormatter("shortdate");
var stimefmt = new Windows.Globalization.DateTimeFormatting.DateTimeFormatter("shorttime");
// Obtain the date that will be formatted.
var dateToFormat = DateTime.Now;
// Perform the actual formatting.
var sdate = sdatefmt.Format(dateToFormat);
var stime = stimefmt.Format(dateToFormat);
// Results for display.
var results = "Short Date: " + sdate + "n" + "Short Time: " + stime;
Standard date and time picker controls conform to users’ selected region
To display dates or times yourself, use Date/Time and Number formatters to automatically display the user's
preferred format for dates, times and numbers

23. // Determine the current users default currency.
var userCurrency = Windows.System.UserProfile.GlobalizationPreferences.Currencies[0];
// Number to be formatted.
var fractionalNumber = 12345.67;
// Currency formatter using the current users preference settings for number formatting.
var userCurrencyFormat = new Windows.Globalization.NumberFormatting.CurrencyFormatter(userCurrency);
var currencyDefault = userCurrencyFormat.Format(fractionalNumber);
// Create a formatter initialized to a specific currency.
// In this case it's the Euro with the default number formatting for France.
var currencyFormatEuroFR =
new Windows.Globalization.NumberFormatting.CurrencyFormatter("EUR", new[] { "fr-FR" }, "FR");
var currencyEuroFR = currencyFormatEuroFR.Format(fractionalNumber);
// Results for display.
var results = "Fixed number (" + fractionalNumber + ")n" + "With user's default currency: " +
currencyDefault + "n" + "Formatted Euro (fr-FR defaults): " + currencyEuroFR;
Different cultures format numbers differently
Use NumberFormatting to display decimal, percent/permille numbers, currencies

24. Calendar

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