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Abstract: Strategic overview to going global.
Abstract: You deploy your application, just as you have 100 times before. Or perhaps, you make a simple change in an existing configuration, such as replacing a printer. But, for some reason, this time text is being corrupted somewhere along the way. The terminal doesn't display the right characters, the printer produces unusable reports, or users report that your web pages seem to be encrypted. You suspect the problem is an incorrect code page setting or the wrong conversion is being performed. How do you identify the culprit? This session walked attendees through the steps to analyze problems with code pages.
Abstract: Powerhouse organizations like Microsoft and Lotus have both the bulk and the resources to design internationalization into their products from the very earliest stages of development. Extensive testing enables simultaneous release of multiple languages and ultimately, ensures first-to-market status. Internationalization at this success rate and level, is achieved through aligning an organization from top to bottom to support global goals.
Then there are the rest of us. Everyone from managers working in start-ups to product developers at medium-sized companies, all competing for limited resources, and buy-in from upper management who believes in reaching globally, but thinks that internationalization will actually slow efforts to be first- to-market.
Educating and evangelizing the entire organization on the benefits of internationalization are essential parts of building a cost-effective and long-term strategy. Careful evaluation of each localization and internationalization project is also key to understanding when compromises really do need to be made.
This presentation discusses real-world experiences in internationalization and suggest a few unconventional approaches to motivating internationalization within an organization.
Abstract: Whether your application is B2C or B2B, it may be communicating with clients or other applications anywhere in the world. This session prescribes the best programming practices to ensure your code, HTML, and XML supports access around the globe. The Web is worldwide and this session will show you how to internationalize your e-business applications to meet global business requirements.
Abstract: To achieve interoperability with data that includes date and time values, software developers often look to ISO 8601, the relevant ISO standard, as a guide for implementation. However, this standard has many pitfalls that plague unsuspecting developers. Although its problems are not limited to the arena of internationalization, 8601 includes some particular challenges for international applications. This session will highlight the contents of, and some of the problems with, using ISO 8601.
Abstract: This technical presentation describes the migration of an existing multi-platform, international, n-tier, relational DBMS and its 4GL programming language to support Unicode. As the migration strategy is based on existing support for double-byte character sets, this approach should be especially interesting for developers supporting Asian markets.
Technical decisions and tradeoffs made during the design process and some of the implementation tactics used, are presented. Considerations for migration of the many currently supported character sets, compatibility with previous versions, new extensions to the 4GL for Unicode, and other product modifications are discussed.
As the implementation is staged, some of the intermediate configurations that are deployed are discussed. Conflicts with maintaining compatibility with existing report and display formats will be presented, as will the chosen solutions.
