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LISA - The vision for localisation IT - what is it? (premium) • Judith Jones, Process UK
LISA’s Progress (premium) • David Lewis, SNI SprachenDienst, Germany
Translation and the Internet (premium) • Robin Bonthrone Fry & Bonthrone Language Consultancy and Services, Germany
Transparent Langauge Processing: A Solution for Internationalization of Internet Services (premium) • Borka Jerman-Blazic, Andrej Gogala, Dusan Gabrijelcic Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, Slovenia
American ‘Humor’ • Merle Tenney (Merle_Tenney@qm.claris.com)
The Multilingual World Wide Web (premium) • Gavin Nicol, Electronic Book Technologies, Japan
MAITS - Multilingual Application Interface for Telematic Services (premium)
Multilingual API for internationalization of the network services (premium) • Borka Jerman-Blazic, Andrej Gogala, Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, Slovenia

Multilingual API for internationalization of the network services

Borka Jerman-Blazic, Andrej Gogala, Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, Slovenia

This paper describes an attempt for provision of internationalized network services by introduction of a tool for transformation of character set codes in different network applications. The tool helps the end user with the conversion of the received or sent data encoded in character set codes that are not supported by the user system. The tool considers the user cultural environment and provides conversion customized to the user needs and cultural requirements. The tool was developed within the Project C3 of the TERENA WG-CHAR Task Force. Currently, the tool caters for the scripts used in Europe, but the model developed and the API implemented can be used for any other cultural environment. The basic model make use of the UNICODE character sets as an universal basis for any kind of character sets conversion.

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