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# Internationalization

> Allows the development of localizable applets. Enhancements include the display of UNICODE characters, a locale mechanism, localized message support, locale-sensitive date, time, time zone and number handling, collation services, character set converters, parameter formatting, and support for finding character/word/sentence boundaries.

> NOTE: Internationalization uses enhancements to IO. See IO Enhancements for related information.

> Acknowledgment: Most of the design and implementation of the Internationalization API is by IBM's Center for Java Technology - Silicon Valley. Java Software is grateful for their work.

JDK 1.1 Internationalization Overview

- JDK 1.1 Internationalization Overview

Internationalization Tutorial

- A New Tutorial for Internationalization!

Internationalization Font Properties

- Adding Fonts to the Java Runtime
- Unicode Font Support in JDK 1.1

Internationalization Demos

- Collation
- Date and time formatting
- Message formatting
- Number formatting
- Text boundaries

Internationalization API Reference
(javadoc)

- java.text Package
- java.io Package

> NOTE - Do not directly call any API in:

>        text.resource.*

> This package is not included in this list, because it is a temporary package.
> We had to make them public to work around a problem in 1.1 that we will fix
> in the next API-change release. The API and implementation in this package
> will change, and some API will possibly be added and deleted.
> Please treat these as if they were package-private.

Internationalization Tools

- native2ascii - Converts native-encoded characters to UNICODE
  (for Solaris) (for Windows)

JDK 1.1 Locales and Encodings

- Supported Locales
- Supported Encodings
- Euro Support

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