he cultural nuances inherent in international business heighten the complexities of developing an effective human resource strategy.Other Questions Explain what character encoding is. How does this impact international business? Character encoding is a standard per language using binary conversions. Multiple 'standards' can be for each language, and the encoding process is taking the written alphabet of the language and putting it into the binary form. This impacts international business because businesses need to make sure they have compatible programs that will allow them to communicate with languages out of there own. For example if an English speaking person sends an English message to a Chinese person and the Chinese person doesn't have the proper encoding standard then they will not be able to read the message.What are the two major solutions to character encoding problems? What are their relative advantages and disadvantages? ISO 8859 (also the advanced stages of ISO 10646) (or just called the ISO standard). The current leader in the minds of Americans is the UNICODE standard. Both of these standards are trying to replace the countryspecific encoding standards like ASCII, ISO 8859-1 and ISO 8859-2 in Europe,ISO 8859-7 in Greece, KOI-8 in Russia, EUC and Shift-JIS in Japan. As youcan see the disadvantage is that still countries use their own standards heavily and are even still developing them. The advantage is that they are at least available for people all around the world that for a computer-savvy user language will not be a computer-related barrier.What solutions are available to deal with language switching in software? Microsoft has adapted for e-mail, browsing, office application, and the end-user controls of the operating system to make language transparent to the system. This allows users to install 'plug-ins' to control what languages they can write in and what they can view in. Many other mainstream programs ar...
