Developing Globalized Applications for Windows 2000 Using Unicode Based API's
| Intended Audience: |
Manager, Software Engineer, Systems Analyst |
| Session Level: |
Intermediate |
This half-day tutorial will help the attendee understand the new features available in
Windows 2000 that allow them to develop Unicode-based multilingual applications for a
worldwide market. The first part of the tutorial will cover the business case, technical
issues and potential pitfalls of a multilingual application.
The second part of the tutorial will show how the tools, APIs and features within
Windows 2000 help the developer effectively address the issues described in part one.
Some of the issues discussed will be:
- The formatting of messages, dates, time, numbers and currency.
- The handling of East Asian languages by the use of IMEs Input Method Editors).
- The display of complex scripts (Arabic, Hebrew, Thai) through the use of Uniscribe.
- The input and display of right-to-left (RTL) languages.
- Good practice methods for globalizing software.
In conclusion, we will show that through the use of Windows 2000 Unicode-based tools, APIs
and features the difficulty and cost of creating multilingual applications has been
dramatically reduced.
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