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Abstract

Experiences in Adapting and Customizing ICU

Daniel Chen - IBM Corporation

Intended Audience: Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts
Session Level: Intermediate, Advanced

ICU (International Component for Unicode) open source project is gaining its popularity those days. In Notes/Domino 6.0, we have re-written its Unicode support component(Lotus Component for Unicode) based on ICU. This paper discusses our experiences in adapting and customizing ICU for Notes/Domino 6.0. These include evolution history of Unicode support in Lotus software; why we adopt the open source component of ICU; How we managed the risks of integration; How we addressed the issues of high level API back compatible; etc.

The session also covers the tips and techniques on customizing ICU word breaker, implementing ICU collation tailoring, addressing security issues of applying normalization, adapting new memory management, etc.

The paper also touches on how we will adapt ICU4J(ICU for Java) in Lotus next generation of J2EE based products development.

The intended audiences are managers, developers, system analysts who are interested in adopting ICU(Open source)in their International products development of Unicode support.

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