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Summary: Useful even if you aren't YET coding for CJKV
Review: This book is an excellent guide to the pitfalls to avoid when doing software internationalization. Most books on the subject will warn you about the unwritten assumptions in coding for a single human language. This one also warns you about the many places you may be assuming that your characters are each 1 byte in length. Some of these are obvious enough, such as actual declarations. Some are subtler, such as regular expressions being one byte off in matching multibyte characters.If you are involved in software internationalization, buy this book. Even if you aren't shipping a product to Asia yet, it will save you from writing code that is just to painful to modify for multibyte character sets.
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Summary: Must-have for CJKV developers
Review: This is an outstanding guide for English-speaking developers who must target Asian languages. For those of us who do not read or speak these languages, it tackles some of the scariest issues: different types of characters, when they are used, how they relate to each other, and how they are encoded in software. Lunde's explanation of the structure and history of Asian written languages is fascinating reading in its own right. If developing on the Windows platform, I would also recommend "Developing International Software for Windows 95 and Windows NT" by Nadine Kano (Microsoft Press). Lunde's book contains crucial background information regarding Asian character sets, as well as some general algorithms; the Kano book focuses on implementation details specific to the Windows environment.
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Summary: An exhaustive review of the subject
Review: Truly the complete guide to the subject. As an introduction to Asian languages and their contents and usage this book as proved to be an excllent guide. From the streight forward and understandable explanination of the character and symbol sets to useful guidelines for implementation to the exhaustive list of characters and symbols. I don't see how you can try and deal with these language sets without using this book.
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Summary: Chinese edition of this book
Review: Why amazon.com do not provide order for the Chinese version of "CJKV Information Processing"? I think it's more useful for Pan-Chinese customers.
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Summary: Chinese edition of this book
Review: Why amazon.com do not provide order for the Chinese version of "CJKV Information Processing"? I think it's more useful for Pan-Chinese customers.
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