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Jane Blake, Editor of _Digital Technical Journal_, sent this
announcement of a soon-to-be-published issue focusing on
internationalization.

Jeff
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Digital Technical Journal
Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1993
Forthcoming, October 1993
Featured topic: Product Internationalization

Approx. 128 pages


CONTENTS
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Foreword
by Claude Pesquet

International Cultural Differences in Software
by Timothy G. Greenwood

International Distributed Systems -- Architectural and Practical
Issues
by Gayn B. Winters

Unicode: A Universal Character Code
by J|rgen Bettels and F. Avery Bishop

The X/Open Internationalization Model
by Wendy Rannenberg and J|rgen Bettels

Supporting Japanese, Chinese, and Korean on OpenVMS
by Michael Yau

The Ordering of Universal Character Strings
by Reni Haentjens

Character Internationalization in Databases: A Case Study
by Hirotaka Yoshioka and Jim Melton

Japanese Input Method Independent of Applications
by Takahide Honma, Hiroyoshi Baba, and Kuniaki Takizawa


Abstract:

The Digital Technical Journal, Volume 5, Number 3 presents a
discussion of product internationalization. Opening papers in the
issue focus on the Unicode/10646 character code standard and how
cultural requirements, particularly written languages, influence
the way computer systems must operate. Engineers survey the
architectural and practical issues in the efficient construction
of systems that support multiple languages, scripts, and character
sets simultaneously. Additionally, software engineers provide a
brief history of internationalization standards activities
as well as a description and an analysis of the X/Open model for
internationalization.

Localization efforts are described in a paper about OpenVMS support
for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean languages, and the handling of
multibyte character sets.  The need for formal specification methods
to describe culture-specific ordering rules is also presented.
Engineers working in the area of databases discuss the character
internationalization features supported in the standard for Database
Language SQL and describe the application of those features in DEC Rdb,
Digital's relational database product. Finally, engineers describe an
approach to resolving the critical engineering issues surrounding a
Japanese input method implementation.


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The Digital Technical Journal is a quarterly, refereed
publication of Digital Equipment Corporation that provides
engineers and educators with practical insights into the
application of scientific and engineering principles to the
design, development, and manufacture of new technologies and
products.  Upcoming issues of the Journal will feature a variety
of topics, including software process, the NT operating system,
GIGAswitch network interconnect, Alpha AXP desktop systems,
database systems, and workflow.

For ordering information, contact Cathy Phillips, Digital
Technical Journal, Digital Equipment Corporation, 30 Porter Rd.,
Littleton, MA  01460-1446, Phone 508-486-2538, FAX 508-486-2444,
or NEARNET:DTJ@crl.dec.com.

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