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Program - Session
Descriptions
Monday, September 8, 2008
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09:00-12:30 |
MORNING
TUTORIALS |
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Presenter:
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead,
W3C |
Track 1: An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode
The tutorial will provide you with a good understanding of the many
unique characteristics of non-Latin writing systems, and illustrate the
problems involved in implementing such scripts in products. It does not
provide detailed coding advice, but does provide the essential
background information you need to understand the fundamental issues
related to Unicode deployment, across a wide range of scripts. It has
also proved to be an excellent orientation for newcomers to the
conference, providing the background needed to assist understanding of
the other talks! The tutorial goes beyond encoding issues to discuss
characteristics related to input of ideographs, combining characters,
context-dependent shape variation, text direction, vowel signs,
ligatures, punctuation, wrapping and editing, font issues, sorting and
indexing, keyboards, and more. The concepts are introduced through the
use of examples from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai,
Hindi/Tamil, Russian and Greek. While the tutorial is perfectly
accessible to beginners, it has also attracted very good reviews from
people at an intermediate and advanced level, due to the breadth of
scripts discussed. No prior knowledge is needed. |
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Presenter:
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon) |
Track 2: Internationalization: An
Introduction
What is internationalization? What do developers, product managers, or
quality engineers need to know about it? How does a software development
organization incorporate internationalization into the design,
implementation, and delivery of an application? This tutorial provides
an introduction to the topics of internationalization, localization and
globalization. Attendees will understand the overall concepts and
approach necessary to analyze a product for internationalization issues,
develop a design or approach, and deliver a global-ready solution. The
focus is on architectural approaches and general concepts, but will
include specific examples and exercises. Some of the topics covered will
include: character encodings and Unicode; processing text in different
languages; preparing for the localization (translation) of user
interfaces; making applications “locale-aware”, including format and
display differences; as well as approaches to delivering multi-lingual
and multi-locale software or content. |
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Presenter: Shawn
Steele
Peter Constable
Sr. Software Design Engineers
Microsoft Corp |
Track 3:
Windows Language Support
Microsoft's Windows Vista has 36 localized builds and 50 plus language
interface packs (LIP) as well as supports 100's of different
languages. The localized builds can come in many flavors -- Starter
Edition, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate.
Besides the localized versions of Windows Vista, there is also the
support for creating and displaying content in many different
languages. This presentation will sort out the different types of and
levels of language support that can be found in each of these versions
and how they all relate to each other. |
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10:30-10:45 - Morning
Refreshments |
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12:30-13:30 - LUNCH |
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13:30-15:30 |
AFTERNOON
TUTORIALS |
Presenters:
Craig Cummings
Mike McKenna
Internationalization Architects,
Yahoo! Inc. |
Track 1 - Unicode - A Grand Tour
This tutorial will cover the basics of what Unicode is, why it exists,
and how it is used in the real world. The modules of the
tutorial will cover: Introduction to glyphs, character sets, and
encodings. The history behind Unicode - why was it created and what
problems does it solve? The Unicode standard - what are the
"Guiding Lights", or design principles behind Unicode? A
tour of Unicode's structure, encoding forms, behavior, technical
reports, database, and how to use the Unicode Standard. Unicode and
other standards - where is it specified and why in RFCs, IETF, W3C,
and elsewhere. Implementation according to Unicode - a walk through
the details of attributes, compatibility, non-spacing characters,
directionality, normalization, graphemes, complex scripts, surrogates,
collation, regular expressions and other aspects according to the
Unicode Standard and associated Technical Reports. Unicode and the
Real World - an overview of International Components for Unicode (ICU)
and implementations supporting Unicode in web servers, application
servers, browsers, C/C++, Java, PHP, SQL, content management systems,
and various operating systems. On-going programs - how Unicode is
evolving to support more minority scripts, languages, and help solve
linguistic processing issues. |
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Presenter:
Tex Texin
Technical Director,
NetApp (13:30
to 16:30) |
Track 2 - Web Internationalization -
Standards and Best Practices
This tutorial is an introduction to internationalization on the World
Wide Web. The audience will learn about the standards that provide for
global interoperability and come away with an understanding of how to
work with multilingual data on the Web. Character representation and the
Unicode-based Reference Processing Model are described in detail. HTML,
XHTML, XML (eXtensible Markup Language; for general markup), and CSS
(Cascading Style Sheets; for styling information) are given particular
emphasis. The tutorial addresses language identification and selection,
character encoding models and negotiation, text presentation features,
and more. The design and implementation of multilingual Web sites and
localization considerations are also introduced. |
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Presenter: George
Rhoten
Sotfware Developer
IBM |
Track 3 - Internationalization with
Java and Eclipse
Java, Eclipse and ICU have excellent frameworks and tools to simplify
your job of internationalizing software. The Externalize Strings
Wizard in Eclipse provides an easy to use interface for extracting
strings from source code into your resource bundles. This tutorial
will discuss this wizard, resource bundle management, formatting
messages and how the default locale can changes resource lookup and
Java framework behavior. |
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15:30-15:45 - Afternoon Refreshments |
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15:45-17:45 |
AFTERNOON
TUTORIALS |
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Track 1 - Unicode - A Grand Tour
(Cont'd.)
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Presenter:
Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead,
W3C (16:45
to 17:45) |
Track 2 - Creating XHTML/HTML Pages with Right-to-Left
Scripts
This short tutorial explains how to go about creating XHTML and HTML
pages containing text written in the Arabic or Hebrew scripts.
The tutorial examines how best to achieve the correct effect for these
bi-directional scripts using appropriate markup, CSS properties and
Unicode code points or entities. It covers the basics, and goes
beyond to provide recommended techniques for some of the tricky
situations that even native speakers can struggle with. The
tutorial assumes a basic familiarity with the bi-directional
characteristics of Arabic and Hebrew, as well as a basic knowledge of
HTML and CSS.
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Presenters: David Bertoni
Software Engineer, Google
Steven R.
Loomis
Software Engineer,
IBM
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Track 3 -
ICU in Action
International Components for Unicode (ICU) is a very popular
internationalization software solution. However, similar to any
complex product, a learning curve is involved. The goal of this
tutorial is to help new users of ICU4C install and use the library.
Topics include: Installation, verification of installation,
introduction and detailed usage analysis of ICU4C's frameworks
(normalization, formatting, calendars, collation, transliteration).
The tutorial will walk through code snippets and examples to
illustrate the common usage models, followed by demonstration
applications and discussion of core features and conventions, advanced
techniques and how to obtain further information. It is helpful if
participants are familiar with C and C++ programming. After the
tutorial, participants should be able to install and use ICU4C for
solving their internationalization problems. |
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18:00-19:00 - Welcome
Reception hosted by Adobe Systems |
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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09:00-09:15 |
WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
Addison Phillips,
Globalization Architect, Lab126 (Amazon) |
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09:15-10:00 |
KEYNOTE Presentation:
New Developments in Digital Humanities
Georges Van Den Abbeele, Dean of
Humanities
University of California, Santa Cruz |
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10:00-20:00 - EXHIBIT AREA OPEN |
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10:00-10:30 - Morning Refreshments in Exhibit Area |
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10:30-11:20 |
SESSION 1 |
Presenter:
Doug Emery
Consultant
Emery IT
Michael
B. Toth
Program Manager,
R.B.Toth Associates |
Track 1 - Unicode as a Key Tool in
Preserving Archimedes Writings
Unicode has proven to be a key tool for encoding
transcriptions of the earliest known texts of Archimedes’ key
mathematical and scientific works. As part of a major multiyear
project using a range of advanced imaging techniques, the
transcriptions are being encoded in Unicode to make them readily
available on the Web for users around the globe. Integrating
transcriptions of Archimedes' mathematical texts with multi-spectral
digital images and hosting them on the Web for global users has
posed a complex set of information sharing challenges. Unicode
is an essential element in the integration of the transcribed
information with the archive of complex digital images. |
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Presenter:
Addison
Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon) |
Track 2 - WS-I18N: Making Web Services
Internationalized
Web services and internationalization have an uneasy
relationship. Whether you use REST, AJAX, or SOAP, it isn't
always clear how to extend your internationalized code to
"live at the end of a URI". This presentation details
both the latest developments on the WS-I18N at the W3C as well
as some ideas on how to develop (and examples thereof) REST/AJAX
Web services. |
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Presenters:
Jeffrey D.
Oldham
Software Engineer
Dr. Craig Cornelius
International
Engineering Team
Google, Inc. |
Track 3 - Dealing with a World in Flux:
Updating International Identifiers
Google uses identifiers to denote a user's language, region
(a.k.a., country), currency, and time zone. Because sets of
valid identifiers frequently change, Google incorporates these
as quickly as possible while still supporting deprecated
identifiers. We describe our engineering to support updating
identifiers. Region identifier transitions are the most
difficult to implement, especially in the Ads system which uses
many interacting executables. Based on a taxonomy of identifier
changes, we engineer this process using a human-executed,
distributed transition plan and a small number of code updates.
Users of identifiers may benefit from Google's experience. |
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11:30-12:20 |
SESSION 2 |
Presenters:
Swaran
Lata
Somnath Chandra
Scientist-D
Dept. of Information Technology,
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
Gov't. of India |
Track 1 - Challenges of Localization in
a Multi-script and Multilingual Nation
The multilingual diversity of India having twenty-two officially
recognized languages and 11 scripts is probably the most unique
in world making internationalization and localization of any
software solution a complex and gigantic task. We shall discuss
Storage and Encoding problems, then input mechanism and storage
mapping in respect of Indic languages, especially non-existence
of a unique and converged storage location from different
keyboard layouts. The rendering and browser problems specific to
Indic languages would be presented. The requirements of Indic
languages in respect of IDN, special modifier characters, and
limitation of string-length in the light of latest IDNA200x
protocol will be presented. Finally we will touch upon various
other challenges in Localization such as Orthographic variation,
long gestation period for convergence and skewed participation
of stake holders in adopting and implementing standards. |
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Presenters:
Adil
Allawi
Technical Director,
Diwan Software Ltd
Shanjian Li
SW Engineer
Google |
Track 2 - I18n in Google Web Toolkit -
An Open Source Collaboration
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software
development framework that makes writing AJAX applications
simple. So says the first line of the the GWT home page. But
many companies slap on an open source label on their projects
without really meaning it. When one developer came along with
the aim of having Arabic supported in GWT he found Google truly
open to his ideas and this presentation demonstrates the results
of that collaboration. Adil Allawi and Shanjian Li will discuss
the new I18N features of GWT 1.5. |
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Presenters:
Addison
Phillips
Globalization Architect, Lab126 (Amazon)
Dr. Mark Davis
Sr. Intl. SW Architect, Google |
Track 3 - Language Tags: The Next
Generation
In 2006, the IETF issued an updated version of BCP 47
"Tags for Identifying Languages", which updated the
way languages are identified in most computer programs and
protocols. BCP 47 now incorporates major changes to language
identification, including many more base languages, the use of
scripts to distinguish written forms, the addition of more
regional variations, and the ability to effectively parse
language identifiers. This presentation, from the authors of the
updated RFCs, covers the format of language tags and the
language subtag registry; the matching algorithms for comparing
language tags to user preferences; the new features in BCP 47
and their impact on developers; and other developments in
language identification in Internet applications. |
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12:30-13:30 - LUNCH |
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13:30-14:20 |
SESSION 3 |
Presenter:
Dr. Mark
Davis
Sr. Intl. SW Architect
Andy
Heninger
Software Engineer
Google |
Track 1 - Unicode in Google
Google makes extensive use of Unicode in all of its
products. For example, all web pages -- no matter what their
original encodings -- are mapped to Unicode for processing. This
updated presentation will discuss some of the uses of Unicode in
various Google products, and some of the challenges involved in
processing Unicode on an extremely large scale. It will also
discuss some of the approaches to internationalization that have
been found to be particularly effective.
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Presenter:
Jim DeLaHunt
Consultant in World-ready Business and Technology Development
Jim DeLaHunt & Associates |
Track 2 - Web 2.0 Goes to Babel:
Multilingual Websites and User-supplied Content
In today's web, it's straightforward to publish in any single
language. The cool Web 2.0 sites are organized around
user-supplied content: postings, tags, comments, photos, videos.
But what happens when you try to do all that in more than one
language at a time? Do you translate the user-supplied content?
And how? Can you crowdsource the localization? This talk looks
at the business, technical, and design issues of multilingual
web sites. We'll look at role models, examine social
translation, see how technologies like Joomla, Drupal, WordPress,
HTTP, and URLs fit in. Get inspired to add another language to
your site!
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Presenter:
K.G.Sulochana
Joint Director
Kumar R. Ravindra Senior
Director
Language Technology Ctr.
C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram |
Track 3 - IDN for Indian Languages - A
Case Study
India has perhaps the richest mix of living languages with 4
major language families, 22 official languages, many unofficial
languages and more than 2000 dialects. With less than 10%
English literates among her population, the Internet penetration
in India is around 5% only. IDNs and local language web content
can play an important role in increasing the Internet usage. But
the complex nature of Indic scripts/languages pose problems in
IDN implementation. This presentation will discuss IDN for
Indian languages in general and the problems likely to be
encountered in the implementation, particularly the security
issues, with examples from South Indian languages.
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14:30-15:20 |
SESSION 4 |
Presenter:
Addison
Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon) |
Track 1 - What's in a Name? Handling
Personal Names and Information in a Global Application
People's names, their presentation, collection, collation, and
validation, are rich in cultural and linguistic variation and
nuance. Handling people's personal information (which may also
include gender, age, and other related information, as well as
regulatory concerns) is a key problem when internationalizing an
application that deals with this type of information. This
presentation gives an introduction to the variations in name
handling and demonstrates some different approaches to designing
multi-lingual, multi-culturally capable systems.
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Presenter:
Katsuhiko
Momoi
Senior Test Engineer
& I18n Consultant
Google, Inc. |
Track 2 - Web Apps I18n Testing and Test
Data
Quality of data has a major impact on the effectiveness of i18n
testing - manual or automated. In this talk, against the
background of web apps development, I present a comprehensive
list of data types needed for i18n testing, how they should be
used, and how to generate them. I discuss in particular
what additional considerations are needed for i18n data use in
current web apps testing environments - rapid development
cycles, frequent code changes, effective testing for a large and
expanding number of localized languages, easy use for automated
testing, compliance for the latest Unicode standard, etc.
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Presenters:
Richard
Ishida
Steven Zilles
Tatsuo Kobayashi
W3C & Adobe |
Track 3 - New Work on Japanese Layout
Requirements
The W3C has been gathering requirements for Japanese text layout
from in-country experts, including the original authors of JIS X
4051 via its Japanese Layout Task Force. The task force also
includes representatives from the CSS, XSL-FO and SVG Working
Groups. The end result will be a detailed set of requirements
that will build on and extend beyond JIS X 4051, and will be
published as a W3C Note in English and Japanese.
The work has revealed some interesting new insights on Japanese
layout for the Western experts involved. This talk will describe
these and some of the key points of the proposed document,
referring to rules for such things as page set up using kihon
hanmen, the amount of blank space associated with punctuation
and parentheses, text justification and line breaking,
conversion between horizontal and vertical text, etc.
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16:00-16:50 |
SESSION
5 |
Presenter:
Loïc
Dufresne de Virel
Localization Strategist
Michael Manca
Localization QA Lead
Cory Whitney
Localization Engineer
Intel Corporation |
Track 1 - We're "World-Ready"…
What does this really mean?
Proper internationalization is routinely listed in most software
requirement documents, but most development and validation teams
are in the dark when the time comes to implementing and testing
this basic requirement. Based on real software bugs investigated
by Intel's localization team, this session presents the typical
internationalization issues that developers encounter every day,
but often struggle to properly address in a proactive fashion,
prior to an actual localization attempt. Regional settings,
language selection, encodings, and UI design are among the
topics that will go under the microscope in a very practical
way, exploring the probable causes of those issues, along with
possible solutions and best known methods implemented at Intel.
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Moderator:
John C.
Emmons Globalization
Architect
IBM Software Group |
Track 2 - Panel - Unicode Locale Data
The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) is by far the
largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data,
used by a wide spectrum of companies for internationalization
and localization of applications and systems. This session will
discuss what types of locale information are available in CLDR,
including the new data available in CLDR 1.6; the LDML language
specifying the data; how the data are intended to be used; how
the CLDR vetting process works to ensure the quality of data;
and how interested individuals can become involved in the
project. Panelists will also discuss how they are making use of
CLDR data, and discuss issues in the collection and production
of data.
The panel will consist of persons from multiple vendors involved
in deploying CLDR in their own products and projects, as well as
those involved in the data gathering and vetting process.
Comments and questions will be welcomed from the audience.
Panelists: TBA
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Presenter:
Ken Lunde
Sr. Computer Scientist
Adobe Systems |
Track 3 - Ideographic Variation
Sequences: Implementation Details & Demo
Ideographic Variation Sequences (IVSes) allow glyph distinctions
to be made at the "plain text" level, through the use
of the Variation Selectors (VSes) in Plane 14. This presentation
thoroughly describes the implementation details for supporting
IVSes in the 'cmap' tables of OpenType fonts. The ideographs (aka,
kanji) in the Adobe-Japan1-6 character collection, a static
glyph set that was set forth by Adobe Systems, represent the
very first set of glyphs to have successfully gone through the
Ideographic Variation Database (IVD) registration process, and
whose IVSes became registered at the end of 2007. In addition to
covering the implementation details for IVSes, the presentation
spends a significant amount of time conducting a live demo of
IVS-enabled OpenType Japanese fonts being used with a variety of
IVS-savvy applications. |
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SESSION
6 |
Presenter:
Roy Yokoyama
Principal Globalization Engineer
Motorola-GTG |
Track 1 - Internationalization
Programming for Mobile Applications
In recent years, cellphones have become a commodity for our
daily life style. The trend is similar to what we have seen for
the desktop/laptop computers, where cellphones are becoming
faster, providing more memory, giving rich multi-media
experiences and having a longer battery life. Interestingly
enough, more business professionals are realizing how capable
today's smartphones have become and carry the enterprise
always-connected smartphone instead of a laptop. This
presentation covers the overview of Unicode and locale support
in various mobile platforms used in enterprise smartphones.
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Track 2 - Panel - Unicode Locale Data
(Cont'd.) |
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Presenters:
Ken Lunde
Sr. Computer Scientist
Adobe Systems |
Track 3 - Legacy Gaiji Solutions &
SING
The so-called gaiji problem lingers, yet there have been
numerous gaiji solutions over the years. Adobe Systems carefully
and painstakingly studied legacy gaiji solutions, noted their
shortcomings, and gave birth to SING, an acronym for "Smart
INdependent Glyphlets." This presentation details the
shortcomings of legacy gaiji solutions, pinpointing the specific
areas that can cause them to fail in open systems and
environments, and provides details about how SING has become a
very effective gaiji solution for open systems."
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18:00-20:00
- IUC32 CONFERENCE RECEPTION
(IN EXHIBIT AREA) |
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"Birds
of a Feather" Discussion |
Moderators:
Erkki I.
Kolehmainen Independent
Consultant, Cultural Diversity Issues in ICT
Tero Aalto
Coordinator, Kotoistus Intitiative
CSC-The Finnish IT Center for Science |
Soft Cultural Elements in ICT
CLDR collects culturally dependent data. Its data structure is
defined by LDML, and the data is available for use in IT
implementations. A European CEN Workshop has been tasked
to define sharing of e-governmental resources. For this,
it plans to define (in co-operation with CLDRTC and LISA) a
registry to cover "Soft Cultural Elements" with global
relevance, such as: - mapping of countries/regions and
languages, and their usage and proficiency; - forms and usage of
written and spoken salutations; - rules relating to personal
names, form and usage: - holidays and their coverage, including
whether offices/shops may be expected to be closed; - rules
relating to written text, such as highlighting conventions,
etc.; - timeliness expectations; - any culture-specific
requirements relating to form, appearance, color, etc. This
BOF deals with these elements and some such structure that could
meet the cultural and linguistic requirements of both human and
machine users.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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09:00-09:50 |
SESSION
7 |
Presenter:
Michael Ow
Software Engineer
IBM
Eric Mader
Sr. Software Engineer
IBM Corp. |
Track 1 -
Matching, sorting, and searching Unicode text presents a
unique set of challenges for software
internationalization. Different languages, even those
written with the same script, have different rules for how
strings should be compared. This talk will describe the
different rules used to compare strings in different
languages and give a brief description of the Unicode
Collation Algorithm showing how it can be used to
implement these rules. We will discuss the efficient
searching of Unicode text examining some of the more
popular string search algorithms, showing how they can be
adapted to work well with collation.
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Presenter:
Kirti
Velankar
Senior Software Engineer Yahoo
Inc. |
Track
2 - Internationalization Support in PHP
PHP is one of the most popular platforms for modern Web
development. This session gives an overview of the
internationalization support in PHP 5 and PHP 6 as well as
describes new developments and future plans in this area.
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Presenters:
Dr.
Deborah Anderson
Researcher
Dept. of Linguistics;
Project Leader
Script Encoding Initiative UC Berkeley
Don Osborn
Director, Bisharat |
Track
3 - Unicode Support for Modern African Languages and
Scripts: Where are We Today?
Africa is home to a large number of languages, with the
figure of over 2000 often cited. Due to economic and
technological hurdles–-as well as the sheer number of
languages-–being able to provide widespread software and
font support for the orthographies of African languages
with Unicode is challenging. This talk will provide an
overview of the present-day situation, and focus on the
current needs in terms of fonts, display, and input, as
well as information on unencoded scripts.
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SESSION
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Presenter:
Yoshito
Umaoka
Software Engineer
IBM |
Track 1 - Knotty Problems in
Date/time Parsing and Formatting and Time Zones
An internationalized UI must be able to format dates and
times in a localized form according to different languages
and regional conventions. Programs need not only the
choice of short or long formats, but also different
choices of fields, such as "December 13, 2008"
vs "Dec 2008" or "12/13", and a way to
format ranges of dates ("Dec. 12-14"). This
presentation will explore problems in date and timezone
formatting, and discuss how they are addressed by
structure and data in the Unicode Locales project. It will
provide recommendations for implementation and usage in
various practical scenarios.
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Presenter: Douglas
R. Davidson
Software Engineer
Apple, Inc. |
Track
2 - Apple's Architecture for Localization and
Internationalization
Apple's operating systems are designed with top-to-bottom
international and multilingual support. This session
covers the underlying foundations of that support,
including Unicode strings, localization, locale data,
collation, fonts, and text display, from both a developer
and a user perspective. Demonstrations will be given of
the capabilities of Mac OS X's latest version, Mac OS X
10.5 Leopard. For developers, examples will be shown of
the use of many of the relevant application programming
interfaces.
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Presenter:
Dr. Richard
Cook
Linguist
UC Berkeley |
Track
3 - Unencoded Scripts of China
This presentation introduces scripts of China that are not
yet supported by Unicode. These are of several different
types ("ideographic", pictographic,
syllabographic, alphabetic), and have progressed through
various stages of the standardization process (exploratory
research, draft proposal, final proposal). In particular,
we will examine details of Tangut (Xixia), Nüshu, Naxi,
Lisu, and Classical Yi. Each of these writing systems
presents Unicode with unique challenges. Some character
sets are very large, some have surface similarity to
characters already encoded, and some are unlike anything
previously digitized.
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11:10-12:00 |
SESSION
9 |
Presenters:
Martin J.
Dürst
Associate Professor
Kunihiro Sato
Aoyama Gakuin University |
Track 1 - Implementing Better Source
Editing for Bi-directional XHTML and XML
This presentation describes an ongoing implementation
effort to make it possible for the first time to edit the
source of bi-directional XHTML and XML documents. The
implementation is based on an approach developed using a
Web-based prototype. The ease of viewing and editing (X)HTML
and XML source was one of the main reasons for the fast
adoption of these technologies. However, for scripts and
languages written right-to-left, such as Arabic and
Hebrew, very serious obstacles for source editing have
remained. The root of the problem is that
syntax-significant characters, such as angle brackets and
quotes, are weak or neutral, which may lead to very
confusing display situations. Our implementation uses
syntax-based context analysis to change the bi-directional
type of some weak characters as part of a higher level
protocol.
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Presenter:
Michael
Bridgers
Senior Software Engineer
SAS Institute Inc. |
Track
2 - Shikari: Hunting for Java I18N Problems
SAS Institute's Shikari tool is used to search for i18n
problems in Java applications. (Shikari is a Hindi word
that means Hunter.) This presentation will show what types
of i18n problems Shikari detects, how SAS uses Shikari in
its development process, and how the Shikari tool is
organized and extended. Shikari does static analysis of
Java applications to identify and correct i18n problems as
the code is being developed. Shikari is built as Eclipse
plugins, and runs in two modes: 1) As plugins to the
Eclipse Java IDE. 2) As a command line Eclipse RCP
application.
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Presenter:
Michael
Kaplan
Software Development Engineer
Microsoft Corp. |
Track
3 - Behind the Proposed Change to Tamil in Unicode
The encoding of Tamil within Unicode has been the
subject of displeasure by the government of Tamil Nadu for
as long as it has been there. It has led to a proposal
(built up over the last decade) to try to change the way
that Unicode looks at Tamil, and the very real questions
of why this effort has been so persistent and what will
eventually happen have not really been discussed overtly
in all of this time. This presentation's goal is to talk
about why the proposal exists, why it will ultimately
fail, and why the language itself can survive that fact.
The broader issues of the view of languages and the
"rights" of language owners will also be
discussed in this case study of a language that has been
both wronged and righted as few others have in modern
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12:00-13:00 - LUNCH |
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13:00-13:50 |
SESSION
10 |
Presenters:
Shawn
Steele
Sr. Software Design Engineer
Poornima Priyadarshini
Program Manager
Windows International
Microsoft |
Track 1 - Globalization &
Microsoft Silverlight
In this presentation we will discuss the core
globalization elements of the Microsoft Silverlight
platform, including the dependency on the host operating
system. We will demonstrate the variation of the
Silverlight globalization behavior between the Microsoft
Windows and Apple OS X environments. This will be
contrasted to the consistent support in Microsoft .Net and
Windows which each carry their own data set. The specific
globalization aspects being covered will include the
impact of differing culture sets, sorting behavior and
character support.
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Presenter:
Tex Texin
Technical Director
NetApp |
Track
2 - Honey, My Unicode Data
Disk Went into the Circular
File!
This session will present some of the difficulties of
providing a common international interface to file
services on different operating systems. Although
Unicode supports all the necessary characters, identifying
the set of characters that are legitimate on any OS can be
difficult, and rules for case-insensitivity,
normalization, etc. vary, and may even vary by user.
At this time, the conclusion is unclear. The presentation
may just describe the problem space, it may also offer
some solutions, and possibly a proposal for standardizing
filename conventions will be offered.
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Presenter:
Wunna Ko Ko
Project Leader
Burmese Language Projects |
Track
3 - Unicode: A Ray of Hope For Myanmar Scripts Community
There is no localized international software in Burmese
language which is used by 50 million people. Myanmar
script represents not only Burmese script but also Mon,
Shan, Karen scripts which share a lot of commonalities.
Unicode 5.1 is supposed to be a complete encoding for
Burmese script but a complete implementation method is not
yet available. Besides the encoding standard, more work
needs to be done. This presentation will discuss who is going
to do that work and what more should be done to increase
support of the Myanmar script.
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14:00-14:50 |
SESSION 11 |
Presenter:
Owen Yen
International Program Manager
Microsoft |
Track 1 - Windows Live Messenger
Internationalization
Did you know that Windows Live Messenger supports 48
languages and over 100 markets, and that over 90% of the
instant messaging traffic is being done by users outside
of the United States? How does Windows Live Messenger
behave differently according to various factors such as
language, market, etc.? Come and learn about best
practices used in the globalization and international
deployment of Instant Messaging in general, with a case
study focusing on Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger. |
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Presenter:
Gisle
Forseth
SW Systems Developer
Sr. Principal
ACUCORP
a Micro Focus Company |
Track
2 - Unicode and ISO 2002 COBOL, the Meeting of Two
Standards
As one of the oldest programming languages, COBOL has
never had a standardized way of handling extensive
character sets such as the Unicode standards. In 2002 the
ISO standard organization released the ISO 2002 COBOL
standard, in which the language syntax had been extended
to include support for Unicode and locales. This is the
story of an implementation of the modern character
encoding standard into a programming language as old as
the computer. Topics covered include use of the ICU
libraries, supporting multiple encodings, portability,
matching theory with real world and stepping waters,
"where no man has been before".
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Presenter:
Dr. Seyed
Mohamed Buhari
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Computer Science
University Brunei Darussalam |
Track
3 - Arwi: Case Study of Arabic, Syriac and Diacritical
Unicode Characters
This presentation will start with addressing the
motivation behind the need for Arwi Unicode development.
Keeping the motivation and history of Arwi script in mind,
the audience will be made aware of its difference
from Arabic language script. Combining Arabic, Syriac and
Diacritical characters to build an Arwi script and its
issues faced on different operating systems like Windows
XP/Vista and Linux variants will be discussed. Rendering
issues related to Arwi script on different editor software
will also be addressed. Presentation will address the
development of Arwi TrueType font using Fontforge software
and the development of keymap for various operating
systems.
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14:50 – 15:10 - Afternoon Refreshments |
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15:10 - 16:00 |
SESSION 12 |
Presenters:
Chris
Weber
Security Consultant
Casaba Security |
Track 1 - Exploiting
Unicode-enabled Software
This talk will showcase some of the ways that Unicode has
been leveraged to cause software to break. We will survey
the security issues outlined in Unicode Technical reports
36 and 39. The issues highlighted will be illustrated by
examples of historical Unicode-related security flaws in
popular software and Web applications. For each
vulnerability we will assess the damage that was
inflicted, describe how the exploit worked, and discuss
the root cause. Examples will include demonstrations of
how clever attackers can exploit Unicode-enabled software
to run arbitrary code or takeover the machine.
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Presenter:
John Harvey
Software Engineer
Apple Computer Inc. |
Track
2 - Building Input Methods on Mac OS 10.5 and Up
Leopard introduced the Input Method Kit, a framework
designed to make it easier for developer's to build input
methods. This session will take you through the
process of creating an input method. A basic
overview of the Input Method Kit will be presented.
Additionally, a complete input method will be created and
built using the Input Method Kit and Apple's development
tools. The new support for plug-in Input Methods
will be covered. Finally, a simple plug-in input
method will created.
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Presenter:
Shaloo
Chaudhary
Program Manager
Hisami Scott
International Test Engineer
Microsoft Corporation |
Track
3 - Internationalization of Web Applications Using Natural
Language
Have you talked to software chat-bot yet? Today chat-bots
can speak multiple languages using Natural Language
Processing (NLP). Natural Language Processing is the
latest trend for developing Web Applications. This talk
walks through best practices to develop and support
international chat-bots using NLP, demonstrations will use
real life example of developing a Windows Live Agent
(chat-bots). We will also cover the challenges in scaling
a web application using NLP to multiple languages quickly.
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16:10 - 17:00 |
SESSION
13 |
Presenter:
Andy
Heninger
Software Engineer
Google |
Track 1 - Unicode Security and
Spoofing Detection
Because Unicode contains such a large number of characters
and incorporates the varied writing systems of the world,
incorrect usage can expose programs or systems to possible
security attacks. This is especially important as more and
more products are internationalized. This presentation
describes some of the security considerations that
programmers, system analysts, standards developers, and
users should take into account, and discusses approaches
to reduce the risk of problems. Particular attention will
be given to techniques for detecting spoofing, where URLs
or other identifiers may not be what what they visually
appear to be because of the use of characters that can be
readily mistaken as others.
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Presenter:
Steven R.
Loomis
Software Engineer
IBM |
Track
2 - What's New with ICU?
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the
International Components for Unicode library. ICU is the
premier Unicode-enablement software library, providing a
full range of services for supporting internationalization
consistently across multiple platforms, with C, C++, and
Java APIs, as well as being freely available as open
source. This presentation will provide a brief overview of
ICU, with emphasis on the new ICU 4.0 release, which
includes the latest support for Unicode 5.1 and CLDR 1.6.
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Presenter:
Daniel
Yacob
Semantic Solutions Architect
TopQuadrant
(Ge'ez Frontier Foundation) |
Track
3 - S13N - Enabling Unicode Standards for the Semantic Web
This talk will present an initial attempt at porting
Unicode knowledge (standards, specifications, reports, and
data sets) along with ISO dependent standards, to the
standards of the Semantic Web as a family of ontology
models. In a phrase -the "Semanticization"
(S13N) of Unicode. Interoperability with ontologies of
various domains and disciplines will be demonstrated
followed by discussion of new capabilities that emerge
with Unicode as a knowledge base. A particular focus will
be on the relevance of linked data on L10N. Some
background knowledge on the Semantic Web is assumed for
the talk.
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