Chapter 5. Internationalization

In this chapter

• Locales

• Number Formats

• Date and Time

• Collation

• Message Formatting

• Text Files and Character Sets

• Resource Bundles

• A Complete Example

There’s a big world out there; we hope that lots of its inhabitants will be interested in your software. The Internet, after all, effortlessly spans the barriers between countries. On the other hand, when you pay no attention to an international audience, you are putting up a barrier.

The Java programming language was the first language designed from the ground up to support internationalization. From the beginning, it had the one essential feature needed for effective internationalization: It used Unicode for all strings. Unicode support makes it ...

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