Learning More About Internationalization

There are a variety of online sites that provide general information about internationalization issues. You may find the following Web sites useful if you are learning about internationalization, localization or Unicode. They include:

• Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Site for Software Globalization Information (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/default.asp)
• The definitive word on the W3C’s Web site (http://www.w3.org/international)
• The Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organization founded to develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard (http://www.unicode.org)
• IBM’s International Components for Unicode (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/index.html)
• A tutorial from Sun on how to internationalize Java applications (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n)