Message Guidelines

Message guidelines foster consistent formatting of message and help information. They also promote creation and maintenance of messages that can be easily understood by inexperienced English-speaking end users, as well as by inexperienced translators. Use these guidelines to create message files that are consistent in language and clear in meaning. Distribution of these guidelines enable programmers and writers to coordinate their message-writing efforts. Default messages, external message files, and planned delivery of translatable messages are required for each executable to fully implement international language support.