December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
Content preview from CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
18
|
Chapter 1: CJKV Information Processing Overview
Internationalization and localization are dierent processes. For example, it is possible to
develop an application that properly handles the various scripts of the world, and is thus
internationalized, but provides an English-language user interface (UI), and is thus not
localized. e converse is also possible, specically an application with a UI that has been
translated into a large number of languages, and is thus localized, but fails to properly
handle the various scripts of the world, and is thus not internationalized.
In any case, market demand forces or encourages developers to embrace I18N, G11N,
and L10N, because doing so results in the functionality that their customers demand, or
it provides menus and documentation written in the language of the target locale. ey
oen require special handling because many non-Latin writing systems include a large
number of characters, have complex rendering issues, or both.
What Are the Multilingual and Locale Models?
ere have been two basic models for internationalization: the locale model and the multi-
lingual model. e locale model was designed to implement a set of attributes for specic
locales. e user must explicitly switch from one locale to another. e character sets
implemented by the locale model were specic to a given culture or region, thus locale.
e multilingual ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.