Preface

The Asian-Language Support in the Solaris^TM Operating Environment white paper presents information and software features for internationalizing software in Asian-language markets.

Who Should Use This Book

This white paper is intended for software developers who are interested in developing internationalized software for the Asian-language Solaris^TM operating environment. This white paper is part of a 4-part series on internationalization for Solaris software developers. The four internationalization white papers are:

• Asian-Language Support in the Solaris^TM Operating Environment

• Complex Text Layout Language Support in the Solaris^TM Operating Environment

• Unicode Support in the Solaris^TM Operating Environment

• Euro Currency Support in the Solaris^TM Operating Environment

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 provides an overview of internationalization.

Chapter 2 provides an overview of Solaris internationalization.

Chapter 3 describes internationalization details of Asian languages, specifically Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Chapter 4 addresses the technical concerns of the Asian-specific architecture.

Chapter 5 describes common development issues in multibyte applications.

Appendix A shows features for the Common Desktop Environment, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Solaris operating environment.

Related Books

The following books are related to software internationalization:

• Creating Worldwide Software: Solaris International Developer's Guide Bill Tuthill and David Smallberg.

• Internationalization Guide, Version 2: Open Group Guide The Open Group

• International Language Environments Guide Solaris Developer Collection.

• Programming for the World: A Guide to Internationalization Sandra Martin O'Donnell.

• The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 The Unicode Consortium.

• X Windows on the World, Developing Internationalized Software with X, Motif, and CDE Thomas C. McFarland.

• The following book is related to Asian-language internationalization:

• CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese Computing Ken Lunde

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