Internationalization

JDK 1.2 Contents

Allows the development of localizable software. Enhancements include the display of UNICODE characters, a locale mechanism, localized message support, locale-sensitive date, time, time zone and number handling, collation services, character set converters, parameter formatting, and support for finding character/word/sentence boundaries.

Internationalization features are often used in conjunction with the Input Method Framework.

• Internationalization Overview

(On the Java Software web site.)

• The Java Tutorial -- Internationalization Trail

• Adding Fonts to the Java Runtime
• Unicode Font Support

Demos will run in a browser with full 1.1 or 1.2 support or in the appletviewer tool.

• Collation
• Date and time formatting
• Message formatting
• Number formatting
• Text boundaries

• java.text Package
• java.io Package

• native2ascii - Converts native-encoded characters to UNICODE
  (for Solaris) (for Windows)

• Supported Locales
• Supported Encodings

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