... [...] Thanks Addison. Your reply has helped me put my thoughts straight. Also, the references you mention are an excellent read (I am wondering why Google...
Good afternoon, I have two urgent positions. One would be a permanent role, and another would be a contract role. If you are interested please send your...
Hello everybody, Since I am new to this group I am not quite so sure whether you have at any point in time discussed about any Web development tool that is ...
Hmm.... I'm not sure your question is quite clear. First, what do you mean by "Web development tool"? You list some technologies and each of them has specific...
I have a philosophical problem with Unicode. It treats separate writing systems as though they were merely additional groups of characters added onto one...
... How would your system handle multi-lingual text? For example, a document with Hebrew Arabic and Russian? -- Shoshannah Forbes http://www.xslf.com...
Adam - Just a hunch but I think you never wrote code during the pre-Unicode era. Perhaps others will fill in the details, but n the whole your plan has all...
When Unicode was in invented, there were groups in Japan opposing the idea of unification of Chinese-derived characters. Some even created multilingual OSes...
Kuro-san, What is the aim of such a system as TRON or what the original poster described? I think it is to preserve the identity of non-unified characters...
Hello Barry, I am not advocating TRON or any other such sysmtes. I merely wanted to tell that such experiments have been done without much market acceptance,...
Kuro-san - I agree - Unicode is definitely mainstream. Lately, when I talk with new folks about internationalization, they get a funny look in their eyes when...
I have a plan. Of course --- I don't know if it is a *good* plan -- but nonetheless I have a plan. Once the alternative standard to Unicode is all fleshed out,...
LISA Forum Asia: China Focus 12-15 March 2007 China Focus, The Globalization of China 2.0, is shaping up to be the most exciting Asian event yet, with...
Hi Zakasbanda, Java applications on the Web can use a variety of encodings for their HTML interface. Internally, all Java characters are Unicode UTF-16. This ...
Thanks Addison. The articles helped me a lot understanding whats going wrong. I was able to get most of the chars handled right by changing the JSPs and ...
Hello, I have an application which is in ENU and we are planing to i18n it. To assess development team effort for i18n I have installed this application on...
Dear All, We would like to introduce a new site and forum for source code and programming http://yourcodeworld.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=index and ...
Dear all, I was wondering, if anyone else has come across non-standard locales (as in "non-ISO") used by localisation clients and how they are best dealt with....
I'm reviewing ISO 8601 for standard date and time formats. Is there a standard for world time zones? I'm looking for the following information for all time...
Hi Martin, "Latin American Spanish" is a not-uncommon way to economize on localization of software products. In terms of identification, RFC 4646 (which...
Hi, Time zones are not just identified by their UTC offset (since many of them change their UTC offset during the year---this is variously called Daylight...
Hi Addison, Thanks a lot for the hint! I do indeed remember the new standard for language codes and your articles in Multilingual about it. I presume what we...
... Hi Martin, The new standard and the old standard are extremely highly compatible. All of the old codes still work and the new codes are compatible (in most...
Hi All, I have two queries for which google fails to provide a satisfactory answer (or my search keys were totally garbled!). Kindly help me resolve them: 1....
Hi Amarendra, The official title of "the Unicode conference" is "The Internationalization and Unicode Conference" (IUC). It is the premiere conference on...
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