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Towards internationalized Web creation

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Worldwide Computing and Its Applications — WWCA'98 (WWCA 1998)

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Abstract

Internationalization (i18n) has gained much momentum in recent years. Even the latest HTML 4.0 public draft has taken great strides towards the internationalization of documents, with the goal of making the Web truly ‘World Wide’.

This paper starts with describing the various development in HTML standards that has made the Web more global. It then points out the fact that the correct display and rendering of multilingual text is only half the scenario for i18n. Users not only wish to view i18n HTML document, they want to create them! With this in mind, it then goes on to explain why Java has not fully fulfilled its role as an i18n development platform, especially in the area on keyboard input methods. To meet this shortcoming, it explains how the development of a Java Input Method Engine (JIME) fills the gap. The design and implementation of the framework will be described. It concludes with an account of our ongoing development on JIME.

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  1. Internet R&D Unit, Computer Centre, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, 119260, Singapore

    KokYong Leong, Hai Liu & Oliver Wu

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  1. KokYong Leong
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  2. Hai Liu
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Yoshifumi Masunaga Takuya Katayama Michiharu Tsukamoto

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Leong, K., Liu, H., Wu, O. (1998). Towards internationalized Web creation. In: Masunaga, Y., Katayama, T., Tsukamoto, M. (eds) Worldwide Computing and Its Applications — WWCA'98. WWCA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1368. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64216-1_54

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64216-1_54

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