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Introduction- What are the business drivers for internationalization?
- Business Without Borders
- Opportunities Internationally
- Opportunities on the Web
- Business and Economic Forces at Work
- ROI
Technological drivers for Unicode and Internationalization
- In Software applications
- On the World Wide Web
- Multilingual applications
World Tour: Regional Customs Affecting Software Design and Implementation and Efficient Solutions
- Graphics
- Data Formats (Calendars, Dates, Times, Numbers, Currency, Addresses, etc.)
- Linguistic Software Requirements (Externalization, Argument Substitution, Text expansion, word order, Collation, etc)
- Rendering, Fonts, Writing directions (Bidirectional Vertical)
- Input methods
Writing Systems Around the World
A survey of languages and writing systems including ideographic, bidirectional, and complex scripts.
(e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Indic, Hebrew, Arabic, and others.)
Models of Character Encoding
- Character Sets and Character Encodings- What are they, What problems do they create?
- Unicode and its Repertoire
- Character-Glyph Model
- Combining Characters
- Unicode Encoding Model and it's encodings - Scalar Values, CEF, CES, UTF-8, UTF-16, Surrogates, UTF-32, BOM, etc.
- Character properties (alphabetic, numeric, direction, case, etc.)
Design Decisions
- Choosing the right UTF-n
- Migration to Unicode- programming changes for Unicode-enabling
- Transcoding- Converting legacy encodings to Unicode
- Typical problems with encoding conversions
- Characters that look alike- How to choose the right character
Unicode Algorithms - Part I
- Bidirectional Algorithm
- Line-Breaking
- Regular Expressions and Unicode
Unicode Algorithms - Part II
- UCA- Unicode Collation Algorithm
- Tailoring collations
- Canonical Forms and Normalization
- When is normalization required or important?
- Choosing a normalization form
- Private Use Area, Gaiji Characters
- Unicode compression
- Comparing compression approaches
- Working in small spaces: Efficient storage for Unicode tables
Migration Techniques
- Migration tools
- Estimating migration to Unicode projects
- Unicode footprint requirements (disk, memory, etc.)
- Unicode and Databases (data types, field widths, indexes, queries, collation, database drivers, etc.)
- Multilingual text processing and issues
Unicode on the Wire
- Protocols and Standards on the internet and the Web (e-mail, URLs, etc.)
HTTP, IRI, IDN, Mail (MIME)
- HTML, XML, XHTML
- Encoding declarations and encoding negotiation
- Unicode versus Markup
- Reference Processing model
Unicode in Programming Languages
- identifiers
- parsers
- SQL
- Java
- C/C++/
- C#
- Perl
- Debugging Tips, tools
Localization with Unicode
Tools, Globalization Management Systems (GMS), translation memory supporting Unicode
Unicode and Real World issues
- Surrogates on Windows
- GB18030
- Oracle, SQL Server
- Security
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