Text label & field Alignment in Applications for international audience

While designing the applications for international audience, many a times software fails while displaying the text labels (it turncates) or face aligment issues. Here is the Tip for developers

The text label should be placed above the textfield/textarea. This will take care of expansion of text label (eg in Chinese, Indic) and alignment(eg Arabic).
example
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Name:
___________
[___________]

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Here are some of the interesting read on the topic

Microsoft Windows XP SP2: Internationalization Best Practices
http://www.bhashaindia.com/MSProducts/XpSp2/Articles/I18NBestPracitces.aspx

Localisation and Internationalisation
http://www.issco.unige.ch/projects/ecolore/localisation/Components/White%20Papers/lecture7_handout.pdf

Microsoft PowerPoint - Pan_Asian_Summit1
http://www.panl10n.net/Presentations/Pan_Asian_Summit1.pdf

The impact of Internationalization on Guidelines Contents and Usage
http://www.isys.ucl.ac.be/bchi/publications/2003/Vanderdonckt-UAHCI2003.pdf

I18n in Software Design, Architecture and Implementation
http://developers.sun.com/dev/gadc/technicalpublications/articles/archi18n.html

Case study
http://www.sigchi.org/chi97/proceedings/briefing/jfk.htm#U29