The lessons in this trail teach you what you need to know to
write global Java programs (Java programs that tailor themselves
to the user's customs and language).
Note: The internationalization features
documented in this trail were added to the JDK for its 1.1
release. Thus the code examples in the following lessons
will only work in browsers or viewers that support JDK 1.1.
If your browser does not support JDK 1.1 applets,
you can use the appletviewer program that
ships with JDK 1.1 to run the program.
Internationalization? Localization? Arg! describes a global program and defines terminology
such as localization and internationalization.
Additionally, this lesson describes the problems you face when
writing locale-sensitve programs. This lesson then lists and
briefly describes the new features of the JDK 1.1 that can help
you overcome these problems and write truly global programs.
Locale-Sensitive Data
describes what you need to do to organize and manage
locale-sensitive data in your programs. In addition,
this lesson talks about formatting data such as dates,
numbers, and messages in a locale-sensitive way.
This lesson contains information that every
programmer should know about writing global programs.
Internationalizing an Existing Program: Step by Step
walks you through the process of internationalizing
an existing program using what you learned in the previous lesson.
The applet to be treated is the
WordMatch
applet originally written by Pat Chan.
Note: Feel free to skip this lesson
if you are writing a Java program from scratch. It doesn't contain
any new information...just a different approach to the information
presented to this point.
Collation and Text Boundaries
is still under construction, but we do have two demo programs from Taligent that
illustrate the collation and text boundary features of the JDK 1.1.
