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Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard
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About Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide
Product Description Unicode provides a unique number for every character a computer deals with, no matter what platform, what program or what language. This text provides a hands-on programmer's guide to Unicode. It offers specific guidance on integrating Unicode with other technologies, including Java. From the Back Cover "Rich has a clear, colloquial style that allows him to make even complex Unicode matters understandable. People dealing with Unicode will find this book a valuable resource." --Dr. Mark Davis, President, The Unicode Consortium As the software marketplace becomes more global in scope, programmers are recognizing the importance of the Unicode standard for engineering robust software that works across multiple regions, countries, languages, alphabets, and scripts. Unicode Demystified offers an in-depth introduction to the encoding standard and provides the tools and techniques necessary to create today's globally interoperable software systems. An ideal complement to specifics found in The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 (Addison-Wesley, 2000), this practical guidebook brings the "big picture" of Unicode into practical focus for the day-to-day programmer and the internationalization specialist alike. Beginning with a structural overview of the standard and a discussion of its heritage and motivations, the book then shifts focus to the various writing systems represented by Unicode--along with the challenges associated with each. From there, the book looks at Unicode in action and presents strategies for implementing various aspects of the standard. Topics covered include: The basics of Unicode--what it is and what it isn't The history and development of character encoding The architecture and salient features of Unicode, including character properties, normalization forms, and storage and serialization formats The character repertoire: scripts of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and more, plus numbers, punctuation, symbols, and special characters Implementation techniques: conversions, searching and sorting, rendering, and editing Using Unicode with the Internet, programming languages, and operating systems With this book as a guide, programmers now have the tools necessary to understand, create, and deploy dynamic software systems across today's increasingly global marketplace. 0201700522B08092002 About the Author Richard Gillam is a senior development engineer at Trilogy, a leading developer of large-enterprise e-commerce solutions. He is a former member of IBM's Globalization Center of Competency, where he was one of the original designers of the open-source International Components for Unicode and was responsible for several of the international frameworks in the Java Class Libraries. Rich is a former columnist for C++ Report, a regular presenter at the International Unicode Conferences, and a Specialist Member of the Unicode Consortium. 0201700522AB08092002 Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. As the economies of the world continue to become more connected together, and as the American computer market becomes more saturated, computer-related businesses are increasingly looking to markets outside the United States to grow their businesses. At the same time, companies in other industries are not only beginning to do the same thing (or, in fact, have been doing so for a long time), but are also turning to computer technology, especially the Internet, to grow their businesses and streamline their operations. The convergence of these two trends means that it's no longer just an English-only market for computer software. To an ever greater extent, computer software is being used not just by people outside the United States or by people whose first language isn't English, but by people who don't speak English at all. As a result, interest in software internationalization is growing in the software development community. Many things are involved in software internati
