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Date: November 17, 2005, 7-9 p.m. Speaker: Steven R Loomis (IBM Corporation) George Rhoten (IBM Corporation) Topic: Demonstration of ICU Capabilities Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino Take Saratoga/Sunnyvale exit off 280, turn South into Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into Infinite Loop. Meeting is held in the Singapore Room. Admission: $4, free for IMUG members Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
Some members of the ICU (International Components for Unicode) team will tour the capabilities of the demos and tools of ICU. These demos will cover the following topics: CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) ICU charset conversion Unicode character properties Unicode normalization IDNA (Internationalized Domain Name Algorithm) How to compare Unicode Strings Various Unicode text transformations available in ICU RBManager (A program to edit resource bundles) ICU samples ... and potentially a few others. Steven R Loomis is a member of the Unicode Technology group at IBM San Jose. His ICU contributions include the Locale Explorer demo. Steven joined Taligent in 1993, which later became a part of IBM, and he has worked on networking, messaging and web server frameworks. After a temporary assignment to a cross-functional bidirectional text project, he joined the International Components for Unicode C/C++ team. He has as a hobby Linux system administration. George Rhoten works on International Components for Unicode (ICU) at IBM San Jose. His biggest contributions include improved character set support and platform support. He graduated from Cal Poly SLO, California, with a B.S. in Computer Science and a minor in Theater. He has a strong interest in HCI (Human Computer Interaction), and maintainability of code. He joined the ICU group in July 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMUG has its own site on the World Wide Web: http://www.imug.org. Check it out! It's currently not up-to-date, but we're working on fixing that. For a map of our meeting location go to: http://www.imug.org/events.html and click on the map link. We also post our meeting announcements and handouts at Yahoo! Groups: http://www.yahoogroups.com, under the group name "imugi18n" (IMUG-i-eighteen-n). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be added to the IMUG mailing list, please email to: imugi18n-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: October 20, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Bill Hall (Globalization Consultant, MLM Associates, Inc.)
Topic: What's New in the .NET Globalization Namespace
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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Cupertino, turn left onto Mariani Avenue, left into
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Version 2.0 of Microsoft.NET will soon be released along with some
significant changes that affect the globalization model. Existing
classes have new properties and methods, and several new and useful
classes have been added. Among the latter are a significant set of new
calendars that have been added to an already extensive collection,
including several for the Far East that work on a lunisolar cycle.
Another useful feature is the addition of a custom locale builder that
allows a range of modifications and models. A new class provides
support for localized domain names. Localization operations have been
simplified as a result of strongly typed resources. Finally, a number
of much needed features, overlooked or ignored in .NET 1.1 are now
available.
Since not everyone is familiar with the .NET globalization model, the
new features will be presented in a context that also covers basic
information about the current design. At the same time, the
presentation will keep to the essentials and will not be overly detailed.
Bill Hall has worked since 1985 as a developer and consultant on
Microsoft Windows with experience going back to Windows 1.0, which he
ported at the OEM level to AT&T/Olivetti computers. He has also been a
Windows application programmer and internationalization engineer for
companies such as Olivetti, Novell, NetCom, SimulTrans, and
eTranslate/Convey Software.
In the early 1990's he became interested in language and locale issues
on computing machines. He wrote a book chapter in 1992 for Microsoft
Press on the topic and a series of articles on Win32
internationalization in 1993 for the Microsoft Systems Journal. Over
the years he has taken products into European and Far East languages for
Novell, Netcom, and other companies. He also taught a course at UC
Santa Cruz extension on Internationalization for about four years.
He continues to write on the engineering aspects of creating world-ready
software with most articles today appearing in Multilingual Computing,
where he also serves on its editorial board.
Currently, he is writing a book on the internationalization model
developed for Microsoft.NET. Two of four parts are published on-line,
the third is about to go live, and the fourth is in progress. Details
are at www.multilingual.com/monographs.
In past lives, Bill has been a military and civilian aviator, an
associate professor of mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, and
served for three years as an associate editor with Mathematical Reviews.
He still holds FAA certifications as a commercial pilot, single and
multiengine, and is also rated as an instrument instructor. However, he
suggests that if you want to learn to fly, you should probably find
someone else as he has not been in the front left seat of an airplane
since 1982!
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Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: September 15, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Addison Phillips (Quest Software)
Topic: Language Tags and Locale Identifiers
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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Language tags, based on RFC 3066, form an important part of Internet
internationalization. For example, these tags are used to identify
language in HTML and XML, as well as negotiate language on the Web. They
are the de facto locale identifier for Web-based applications.
Recently there has been work to revise RFC 3066 and this includes many
new features, such as a subtag registry, support for script codes, and
other refinements.
In addition, the W3C has recently started work on a new Specification to
define locale identifiers for Web services and other Web technologies.
This work is expected to be based on existing support for language tags,
as well as the CLDR effort at Unicode.
This presentation, by one of the authors of the 3066 revision and chair
of the W3C effort, will look in depth at the new language tags and
explore how these may work in locale identifiers in the future.
Addison Phillips is the Globalization Architect for Quest Software, a
provider of solutions to help organizations get more performance and
productivity from their applications, databases and infrastructure. He
is the current chair of the W3C Internationalization Core Working Group.
He can be reached at mailto:addison.phillips@quest.com.
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Date: August 18, 2005, 7-9 p.m. Speaker: Ken Lunde, Ph.D. (Adobe Systems) Topic: The Adobe-Japan1-6 Character Collection Location: Adobe Systems (SEE NOTE BELOW) Admission: $4, free for IMUG members Contact: Roger Sherman, (650) 859-5981
PLEASE NOTE!! This month's meeting will be held at Adobe Systems in the West Tower, which is the building that is the closest to Highway 87, and at 345 Park Avenue, San Jose 95110. Attendees should tell the parking attendant that they're Ken Lunde's guest, attending his IMUG talk, which means you won't need to pay $5 for parking. The receptionist is on the second floor. The Adobe-Japan1-6 character collection represents the sixth supplement to the Japanese glyph collection developed by Adobe Systems, which is used by every major Japanese type foundry. This glyph collection enumerates 23,058 glyphs, and supports all current JIS standards. Fascinating details of the development of its key supplements will be conveyed during this presentation. Ken Lunde is a Senior Computer Scientist in CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems. He has worked for Adobe since 1991. He received a PhD degree from The University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1994, and has authored two books for O'Reilly, "Understanding Japanese Information Processing" in 1993, and "CJKV Information Processing" in 1999. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMUG has its own site on the World Wide Web: http://www.imug.org. Check it out! It's currently not up-to-date, but we're working on fixing that. For a map of our meeting location go to: http://www.imug.org/events.html and click on the map link. We also post our meeting announcements and handouts at Yahoo! Groups: http://www.yahoogroups.com, under the group name "imugi18n" (IMUG-i-eighteen-n).
Date: July 21, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speakers: Deborah Goldsmith & Lee Collins (Apple Computer)
Topic: New International Features in Mac OS X Tiger
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) continues the evolution of support for
international in Mac OS, and includes new features both for end users
and developers. We'll discuss and demonstrate new language and font
support, new input methods, new APIs for developers, and more.
Deborah Goldsmith has worked on international software engineering for
ten years. In addition, she is Apple's representative to the Unicode
Technical Committee, vice chair of the Unicode Locale Data Technical
Subcommittee, and Apple's representative on the ICU Program Management
Committee.
Lee Collins has been working in the area of software
internationalization since before it had a name. He started at Xerox
in the early 80s and has been at Apple off and on since 1988, with
side trips to Taligent and Ariba. He is one of the co-founders of
Unicode. His current position at Apple is Manager, OS Engineering
Asia.
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Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: June 16, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Michael McKenna
(California Digital Library, University of California)
Topic: Cultural User Interface Design
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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This talk will focus on "what is cultural user interface (CUI) design?".
Going beyond the basics of color, gestures, icons, and fonts, we find
there are many more issue the internationalization engineer or human
factors expert must consider. We will look at contextual design,
collaborative analogies, usability, and cultural spectrums and their
influence on good design. We will discuss methods of conducting an
ethnographic survey and how to incorporate those findings into the user
experience design and a usability study. Interspersed throughout will be
fun looks at cultural adaptations of a corporate presence throughout the
world. Much of this material is based on a recent tutorial given in
Berlin at the 27th Internationalization and Unicode Conference.
Michael provides leadership in building and managing a suite of services
establishing the primary technical infrastructure for digital content
repositories for the California Digital Library. He has been a
specialist in globalization of applications and distributed systems for
over one and a half decades. He is a licensed professional engineer with
extensive experience consulting or leading globalization projects for a
number Fortune 500 companies and has a background in global e-commerce,
application design, database internals, distributed bibliographic
systems, test engineering, and ethnographic research.
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Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: May 19, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: James Do
Topic: Computing in Vietnamese: Progress and Challenges
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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Slides: Computing in Vietnamese: Progress & Challenges
Throughout its history, and especially in the era of computers,
Vietnamese writing has presented some unique challenges because of
several interesting dichotomies, beginning with the ideographic- and
Latin-based scripts. Unicode has served to unify and multiply the
presentation of Vietnamese-language information on the web, easing both
browsing and search. Nevertheless, actual usage of Unicode for
Vietnamese is far less than one might expect from the universal
availability of Vietnamese in modern computers. We will explore the
entire spectrum of the Vietnamese computing experience, and the road ahead.
[James] Đỗ Bá Phước has been in electronic design automation for more
than twenty years. Covering almost that entire period, he has also been
deeply involved with standardization issues related to Vietnamese
computing, mainly through the Unicode Technical Committee, the Vietnam
Standards Committee (TCVN), and the Ideographic Rapporteur Group (IRG).
He is a founding director of the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation
(www.nomfoundation.org), and of Pacific Links Foundation
(www.pacificlinks.org). One of his hobbies to adapt fonts for
Vietnamese, such as Vtopia and Vsibon.
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Title: Analyzing Unicode Text: Regular Expressions, Boundaries,
Sets and More
Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: April 21, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Markus Scherer (IBM Corporation)
Topic: Analyzing Unicode Text: Regular Expressions, Boundaries,
Sets and More
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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Regular Expressions have been widely used for many years to analyze,
parse or extract desired information from text data. They are used in
applications large and small, and everywhere in-between, from simple
search operations in word processors to scripting languages such as Perl
to queries on large data bases.
Traditional regular expressions cannot easily deal with a character set
of the size and complexity of Unicode. To address this shortcoming, the
Unicode Consortium has published Technical Report #18, a set of
guidelines for extending regular expressions to handle Unicode data.
Following this allows organizations to correctly deal with data in
different languages and scripts.
This paper will review the issues and techniques involved in writing
Regular Expressions for Unicode data. The guidelines from TR 18 will be
reviewed, including a discussion of Unicode encoding forms, character
properties and classes, text boundaries, case sensitivity and
normalization, and the implications of all of these for handling
different languages in regular expressions. The paper will also survey
the capabilities and limitations of those regular expression
implementations known to provide significant support for Unicode.
The presentation is intended primarily for users of regular expressions
rather than implementers of regular expression engines.
Note: This is a repeat of an IUC presentation -
http://www.global-conference.com/iuc27/program.html
Markus Scherer is the current ICU team manager and a software engineer
at IBM developing ICU and other Unicode/Globalization solutions. He has
contributed to many parts of ICU including character conversion, bidi,
normalization, Unicode properties and collation. After graduating from
the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in computer science he worked
on projects for wireless and mobile computing with IBM. A strong
interest in languages brought him into the Internationalization parts of
the projects, followed by his current focus on Unicode and Globalization.
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Date: March 17, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Eric Muller (Adobe Systems, Inc.)
Topic: Unicode and Japanese Personal Names: Variation Sequences
to the Rescue
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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In the character/glyph model which underlies Unicode, a character is an
abstract unit that can be displayed using any of a number of concrete
presentations. For example, an "A" can be rendered by an upright,
italic, bold or Fraktur glyph. Unicode simply does not capture that
level of detail.
The same applies to Han ideographs, and the resulting character
repertoire is generally sound and useful. However, there are some
differences in concrete representations which are important to capture
in some plain text situations, such as in people and place names, yet
are not captured by separate Unicode characters.
To accomodate those situations, Unicode intends to use variation
sequences, which are made of a character together with an indication of
the intended rendering. Furthermore, it is not possible to design a
single set of variation sequences that satisfies simultaneously the
needs of scholars, governements, publishers, etc., yet it is desirable
to reliably interchange such sequences. To support this, Unicode
intends to open a registry of ideographic variation sequences.
Eric Muller represents Adobe to the Unicode Consortium and is one of the
principal authors of "The Unicode Standard, Version 4.0."
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Group: International Macintosh Users Group (IMUG)
(A Forum for Multilingual / Multiscript Computing)
Date: February 17, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Deborah Anderson, Ph.D (UC Berkeley)
Topic: Diversifying the Web for all the World's Languages
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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The Web offers a valuable means of communication in the many languages of the world, but over eighty writing systems used by the world's languages are not yet included in Unicode, the international character encoding standard supported (or required) by the Web standards XML and HTML. To remedy the situation, a project was established at UC Berkeley, the Script Encoding Initiative. It aims to help get into Unicode those ancient and modern scripts which are still not included. The project involves close collaboration with linguists, user communities, and other groups, and has received support from UNESCO and the NEH. The results of the effort will have an important impact on education, literacy, research, and other areas of communication, and will help open the Web to a much greater audience.
Deborah Anderson is project leader for the Script Encoding Initiative at UC Berkeley and a researcher in the Dept. of Linguistics. She is the representative to the Unicode Consortium for UC Berkeley and the Linguistic Society of America. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Indo-European Studies and in her spare time serves as president of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco Society.
Date: January 20, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Speaker: Tex Texin (Yahoo, Inc.)
Topic: My "Shoe Size Web Page" Fetish or How Companies
are losing Money on the Internet
Location: Apple Computer, Apple Campus, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino
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Here is a lighthearted look at a serious problem on the World Wide
Web - the failure to review and QA data made available to customers
on the Web and that is critical to business operations. A methodology
that worked well when customers came in to stores to physically try
on shoes does not work well over the web. Companies are losing money
and customers. Does anyone care?
Retail web sites for the shoe and clothing industries often suffer
from a class of problems that cause the vendors to lose money and
customers. The problems go undiagnosed and are hurting the online
retailing industry.
Reviews of several retail web sites in the shoe and clothing
industries have uncovered several problems that commonly occur.
These online retailers are not aware of the problems or their
losses. Brick and mortar business do not suffer the same
consequences, which is part of the reason that existing businesses
that migrate to online retailing do not anticipate these problems.
This is an update of a paper presented at the 23rd
internationalization and Unicode Conference in Prague in March 2003
and again at the 24th Internationalization and Unicode Conference in
Atlanta in September 2003.
Tex Texin has been providing globalization services, including
training,strategy, and implementation, to the software industry for
many years.
Tex has created numerous globalized products, managed
internationalization development teams, developed
internationalization and localization tools, and guided companies in
taking business to new regional markets.
Tex is also an advocate for internationalization standards in
software and on the Web. He is an invited expert to the Unicode
Consortium and the World Wide Web Consortium.
Tex maintains two web sites for internationalization,
the popular http://www.I18nGuy.com and http://www.XenCraft.com .
Tex is now Internationalization Architect for Yahoo!, having finally
escaped from years of shoveling snow out of his New England driveway
to lovely Sunnyvale, CA, where he spends his free time emptying
buckets of rain from various hallways.
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