Internationalization Support in MIDP

Realistically, an i18n solution on any platform is somewhat constrained by the resources and API mechanisms available to applications. The ease with which a programmer can implement i18n support—and the comprehensiveness of that support—depends largely on the level of explicit support for the major areas of i18n development. The MIDP platform provides the following elements in support of i18n development:

  • Calendar, Date, and TimeZone classes: java.util package

  • system properties: microedition.encoding, microedition.locale

  • conversion between character encoding sets: java.io package

  • user-defined MIDlet suite attributes: application descriptor file (JAD file)

  • retrieval of resources (files) from the MIDlet suite JAR ...

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