Ann Schirmer was the production editor and the copyeditor for Java Internationalization. Claire Cloutier, Linley Dolby, and Jeffrey Holcomb provided quality control. Mary Sheehan proofread the book. Bruce Tracy wrote the index. Joe Wizda and Judy Hoer reviewed the index. Tim Atalla, Paolo De Coppi, Tatiana Diaz, Cliff Dyer, Byung-Soo Kim, Brenda Miller, Lenny Muellner, Nik Udompanyanan, Anne-Marie Vaduva, and Melanie Wang proofread the language sections.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The image of a beachball globe on the cover of Java? Internationalization was photographed by Kevin Thomas and manipulated in Adobe Photoshop by Michael Snow. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using the Bodoni Black font from URW Software and the Bodoni Bold Italic font from Bitstream.

David Futato and Melanie Wang designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Lenny Muellner and Mike Sierra implemented the design in Microsoft Word 2000. The heading font is Bodoni BT, the text font is New Baskerville, and the code font is Courier. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano using Macromedia FreeHand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5.

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