Java Internationalization By Andy Deitsch, David Czarnecki
March 2001
Pages: 462

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction to Internationalization 

      What Are Software Internationalization, Localization,

      and Globalization? 

      Why Choose Java for International Applications? 

      What is a Locale? 

      A Simple Application

2. Writing Systems 

      Ancient Writing Systems 

      Far East Writing Systems 

      Bidirectional Scripts 

      Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic 

      Indic Scripts 

      Thai Script 

      Punctuation 

3. Locales 

      Defining a Locale 

      Working with the Locale Class 

      Querying for Locale Information 

      Checking Available Locales 

4. Isolating Locale-Specific Data with Resource Bundles 

      Why Use Resource Bundles? 

      The ResourceBundle Class 

      How Resource Bundles Are Discovered and Named 

      Property Resource Bundles 

      List Resource Bundles 

      Resource Bundle Caveats

      Deploying Resource Bundles with Applets 

      Design Considerations for Resource Bundles 

5. Formatting Messages 

      Date and Time Formats 

      Number Formats 

      Message Formats 

6. Character Sets and Unicode 

      What Are Character Sets? 

      What Are Encoding Methods? 

      What Is Unicode? 

      Unicode Encoding Methods 

      Code Set Conversion 

7. Searching, Sorting, and Text Boundary Detection 

      Collation Issues 

      Sorting in Java 

      Tailoring Collation

      Improving Performance 

      Searching 

      Detecting Text Boundaries 

8. Fonts and Text Rendering 

      Characters, Glyphs, and Fonts

      Java’s Font-Related Classes 

      Components for Rendering Complex Text 

      TrueType Font Support in Java

      Working with the font.properties File 

      Adding New Fonts to Your System

9. Internationalized Graphical User Interfaces 

      General Issues 

      Component Orientation 

      Internationalization and Localization Caveats

      for Various Components 

      Using a Layout Manager 

      Copying, Cutting, and Pasting International Text 

      A Simple Example 

10. Input Methods 

      What Are Input Methods? 

      What Is the Java Input Method Framework? 

      Selecting Input Methods

      Using the Input Method Engine SPI 

      Developing a Simple Input Method 

      How to Package and Install Input Methods 

      Developing a More Complex Input Method 

11. Internationalized Web Applications 

      Applets 

      Servlets

      JavaServer Pages 

12. Future Enhancements to the Internationalization

      Support in Java 

      Unicode 3.0 Support 

      Enhanced Complex Text 

      Character Converter Framework 

      Improving the Input Method Framework

A. Language and Country Codes 

B. Character Encodings Supported by Java 

C. Unicode Character Blocks 

D. Programmer’s Quick Reference 

E. Internationalization Enhancements

Across Versions of the JDK 

Glossary 

Bibliography 

Index

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