Resources for Global Software

• Introduction
  • Software Engineering: Application Internationalization Issues by Ibrahim Meru
  • Sun Software Product Internationalization Taxonomy
  • Tex Texin shoe sizes
• Locale
  • ISO 3166 Country codes
  • ISO639 Language codes
  • Supported locales for Java 1.4.2
  • Language Codes: ISO 639, Microsoft and Macintosh
  • Tex Texin, What's wrong with locales?
• Characters and fonts
  • Wikipedia definition of character
  • Fonts 101 - a large collection of mainly English fonts
  • ASCII table
  • Good ole' ASCII
  • A tutorial on character code issues by Jukka Korpela (very good)
  • Extended ASCII chart
  • ANSI.SYS Escape Sequences
  • Wikipedia ISO 8859
  • The ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup
  • Microsoft Windows Codepage : 1252 (Latin I) (and note that it isn't really Latin-1)
  • Linux man page for charsets
  • Basic principles of ISO/IEC 2022
  • ISO 2022: Character Code Structure and Extension
  • ISO 2022: Information From Answers.com
  • Answers.com Big5
  • Answers.com Guobiao code
  • Japanese character sets in http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-languages.en.html
  • Alphabetic list of Unicode characters
  • Unicode charts
  • Wikipedia: Typefaces
  • David McCreedy's Gallery of Unicode Fonts
  • TrueType Hinting
  • Web Typography
  • Fonts in Java 1.4.2
  • Fonts in Java 1.5
  • Cyberbit Asian TrueType font
  • Chinese in Java
• JSP and servlets
  • Create internationalized JSP applications by Sing li
  • Java Web Services Tutorial Sun MicroSystems
  • ` JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library Sun MicroSystems
  • Apache Jakarta Tomcat Apache Software Foundation
  • Jakarta Taglibs Apache Software Foundation
  • Internationalize JSP-based Websites Govind Seshadri
  • Common problems with i18n and servlets/jsp-s Anton Tagunov
  • JSP Standard Tag Library eases Webpage development Steve Small
  • JSP Standard Tag Libraries, Part 1 Sue Spielman
  • JSP Standard Tag Libraries, Part 2 Sue Spielman
  • JSTL 1.0: Standardizing JSP, Part 1 Hans Bergsten
  • JSTL 1.0: What JSP Applications Need, Part 2 Hans Bergsten