Java Internationalization [Grāmata]

Preface		ix
Introduction to Internationalization		1	(16)
What Are Software Internationalization, Localization, and Globalization?		1	(9)
Why Choose Java for International Applications?		10	(2)
What is a Locale?		12	(1)
A Simple Application		13	(4)
Writing Systems		17	(32)
Ancient Writing Systems		17	(5)
Far East Writing Systems		22	(9)
Bidirectional Scripts		31	(5)
Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic		36	(7)
Indic Scripts		43	(1)
Thai Script		44	(2)
Punctuation		46	(3)
Locales		49	(14)
Defining a Locale		49	(1)
Working with the Locale Class		50	(6)
Querying for Locale Information		56	(5)
Checking Available Locales		61	(2)
Isolating Locale-Specific Data with Resource Bundles		63	(30)
Why Use Resource Bundles?		63	(1)
The Resource Bundle Class		64	(3)
How Resource Bundles Are Discovered and Named		67	(7)
Property Resource Bundles		74	(1)
List Resource Bundles		75	(7)
Resource Bundle Caveats		82	(6)
Deploying Resource Bundles with Applets		88	(2)
Design Considerations for Resource Bundles		90	(3)
Formatting Messages		93	(46)
Date and Time Formats		93	(23)
Number Formats		116	(12)
Message Formats		128	(11)
Character Sets and Unicode		139	(32)
What Are Character Sets?		139	(4)
What Are Encoding Methods?		143	(2)
What Is Unicode?		145	(16)
Unicode Encoding Methods		161	(1)
Code Set Conversion		162	(9)
Searching, Sorting, and Text Boundary Detection		171	(28)
Collation Issues		171	(3)
Sorting in Java		174	(7)
Tailoring Collation		181	(6)
Improving Performance		187	(2)
Searching		189	(4)
Detecting Text Boundaries		193	(6)
Fonts and Text Rendering		199	(34)
Characters, Glyphs, and Fonts		200	(3)
Java's Font-Related Classes		203	(4)
Components for Rendering Complex Text		207	(9)
True Type Font Support in Java		216	(3)
Working with the font properties File		219	(10)
Adding New Fonts to Your System		229	(4)
Internationalized Graphical User Interfaces		233	(48)
General Issues		233	(10)
Component Orientation		243	(6)
Internationalization and Localization Caveats for Various Components		249	(11)
Using a Layout Manager		260	(2)
Copying, Cutting, and Pasting International Text		262	(6)
A Simple Example		268	(13)
Input Methods		281	(36)
What Are Input Methods?		281	(2)
What Is the Java Input Method Framework?		283	(2)
Selecting Input Methods		285	(1)
Using the Input Method Engine SPI		285	(5)
Developing a Simple Input Method		290	(6)
How to Package and Install Input Methods		296	(2)
Developing a More Complex Input Method		298	(19)
Internationalized Web Applications		317	(34)
Applets		318	(3)
Servlets		321	(13)
JavaServer Pages		334	(17)
Future Enhancements to the Internationalization Support in Java		351	(6)
Unicode 3.0 Support		351	(3)
Enhanced Complex Text		354	(1)
Character Converter Framework		355	(1)
Improving the Input Method Framework		356	(1)
A. Language and Country Codes		357	(10)
B. Character Encodings Supported by Java		367	(6)
C. Unicode Character Blocks		373	(4)
D. Programmer's Quick Reference		377	(38)
E. Internationalization Enhancements Across Versions of the JDK		415	(6)
Glossary		421	(6)
Bibliography		427	(6)
Index		433

David Czarnecki is a Computer Scientist in the Information Laboratory at the GE Corporate Research and Development Center in Niskayuna, NY. He is involved with various e-commerce initiatives and projects, and in recent months has become increasingly involved in providing expertise on how to properly internationalize software. David holds both B.S and M.S. degrees in Computer Science. Andy Deitsch is a software engineer who manages an e-business group at GE's Corporate Research and Development Center. Andy was fortunate enough to be involved in the beta release of Java in 1995 and has been programming in the language ever since. The inspiration for this book came from his efforts to use Java effectively to build internationalized applications and his frustrations in not finding any books related to this important topic.