The International Macintosh Users Group presents:

Demonstration of ICU Capabilities

Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: November 17, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Steven R Loomis (IBM Corporation)
George Rhoten (IBM Corporation)
Topic: Demonstration of ICU Capabilities
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into
Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
Infinite Loop. Meeting is held in the Singapore Room.
Admission: $4, free for IMUG members
Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
roger [dot] sherman [at] sri [dot] com

Some members of the ICU (International Components for Unicode) team will
tour the capabilities of the demos and tools of ICU. These demos will
cover the following topics:

CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository)
ICU charset conversion
Unicode character properties
Unicode normalization
IDNA (Internationalized Domain Name Algorithm)
How to compare Unicode Strings
Various Unicode text transformations available in ICU
RBManager (A program to edit resource bundles)
ICU samples
... and potentially a few others.

Steven R Loomis is a member of the Unicode Technology group at IBM San
Jose. His ICU contributions include the Locale Explorer demo. Steven
joined Taligent in 1993, which later became a part of IBM, and he has
worked on networking, messaging and web server frameworks. After a
temporary assignment to a cross-functional bidirectional text project,
he joined the International Components for Unicode C/C++ team. He has as
a hobby Linux system administration.

George Rhoten works on International Components for Unicode (ICU) at IBM
San Jose. His biggest contributions include improved character set
support and platform support. He graduated from Cal Poly SLO,
California, with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Theater. He
has a strong interest in HCI (Human Computer Interaction), and
maintainability of code. He joined the ICU group in July 2000.


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