CJKV Information Processing, Second Edition

By Ken Lunde
December 2008
Pages: 900
ISBN 10: 0-596-51447-6 | ISBN 13: 9780596514471

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CJKV Information Processing, the unsurpassed source of information on processing text in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, has been thoroughly updated to provide web and application developers with the latest techniques and tools for disseminating information directly to audiences in East Asia. This second edition reflects the considerable impact that Unicode, XML, OpenType, and other modern technologies have had on East Asian text processing in recent years.
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First published a decade ago, CJKV Information Processing quickly became the unsurpassed source of information on processing text in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. It has now been thoroughly updated to provide web and application developers with the latest techniques and tools for disseminating information directly to audiences in East Asia. This second edition reflects the considerable impact that Unicode, XML, OpenType, and newer operating systems such as Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux have had on East Asian text processing in recent years.

Written by its original author, Ken Lunde, a Senior Computer Scientist in CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems, this book will help you:

Learn about CJKV writing systems and scripts, and their transliteration methods
Explore trends and developments in character sets and encodings, particularly Unicode
Examine the world of typography, specifically how CJKV text is laid out on a page
Learn information-processing techniques, such as code conversion algorithms and how to apply them using different programming languages
Process CJKV text using different platforms, text editors, and word processors
Become more informed about CJKV dictionaries, dictionary software, and machine translation software and services
Manage CJKV content and presentation when publishing in print or for the Web

Internationalizing and localizing applications is paramount in today's global market -- especially for audiences in East Asia, the fastest-growing segment of the computing world. CJKV Information Processing will help you understand how to develop web and other applications effectively in a field that many find difficult to master.

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"For developers of mobile, web or desktop applications and operating systems, as well as typographic developers, this book is a must-have up-to-date (even predictive) multilingual computing development reference work. As it stands, costly as it is, the book is a highly recommended purchase as the "off-the-shelf" encyclopedic reference on information processing for CJKV languages. "
-- Ultan Ó Broin, MultiLingual

"I've kept Ken Lunde's CJKV Information Processing with me as I worked on enabling softare in East Asian languages since it was JAPAN.INFO and downloadable from FTP servers in the late 1980s. There's no better place to find everything you need to know about the key technical issues when dealing with Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese. I've referred to it when building speech recognition, Web authoring and now Web browsing softare. The additional content in the Second Edition makes it well worth the upgrade from the first."
-- Harley Rosnow, Amazon.com

"This is a book that deserves a place in any library with holdings on linguistics, computer programming, typesetting, type design, Unicode, information processing, and--of course--any of the CJKV languages. A tour de force and a delight to read. Ken Lunde is a master technical communicator."
-- Major Keary, Linux Users of Victoria Inc.

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"A must-have reference for multilingual computing"
--Ultan Ó Broin, MultiLingual