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Program - Session
Descriptions
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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09:00-12:30 |
MORNING
TUTORIALS |
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, Part I: Characters and Character Encodings
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 track 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.
Part I focuses on characters, character encodings, and the basics
of Unicode. |
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Presenter:
Elizabeth
Pyatt
Instructional Designer
Penn State |
Track 3: Building a Custom
Keyboard Layout for the Mac with Ukulele and XML
Building custom keyboards can be a useful timesaver if you work
with an unusual range of characters across a large number of
documents. The tutorial will describe how to create a custom keyboard
layout on the Mac OS X platform using the freeware Ukelele tool from
SIL plus modifications to the XML file. Although the main example will
a keyboard built for symbolic logic characters, the tutorial will
cover how to create keyboards for many foreign languages. |
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10:30-10:45 - Morning
Refreshments |
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Presenter:
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon) |
Track 2: Internationalization: An
Introduction, Part II: Writing Global-Ready Code
Part II focuses on 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:
Thomas Milo
President
DecoType |
Track 3: Arabic Script: Structure, Geographic and Regional
Classification
A new tutorial about Arabic script (including Arabic script for
dummies, structural analysis, typology, stylistic geography, technical
and aesthetic aspects, language-dependant preferences within
calligraphic styles, and extra attention for orthographies East of
Iraq), against the background of the development of a brand-new
Nastaliq typeface that covers the Unicode for all languages that
require this Persian-derived style. |
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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 next level of detail of what Unicode is,
and how it is used in the real world. The modules of the tutorial will
cover: 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. 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, 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
Xen Master
XenCraft |
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:
Jim DeLaHunt
Principal
Jim DeLaHunt & Associates |
Track 3 -
Building Multilingual Websites in Joomla [Drupal]
A practical look at the language and locale capabilities of Joomla!
and Drupal, two leading free software content management systems (CMSs).
They let you build more powerful, more international websites faster.
We look at: their core services for internationalization and locale
support; localization of UI and content; and localization support in
some leading modules. You will leave with specific tips for building
your own site. We don't assume Joomla or Drupal experience, but do
include material for advanced practioners. A good tutorial for web
site product managers, for web designers and developers, and for
managers of international web site teams. |
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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 |
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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Presenter:
Behdad Esfahbod
Software Developer
Red Hat/GNOME |
Track 3 - Free Software Stack for Unicode Text Rendering
The Free Software world has a lot to offer when it comes to building a
stack up from the grounds. Be it building an ARM-based Linux mobile
platform or cross-platform text rendering to rendering downloadable
CFF fonts on Windows, the Free Software stack provides all the bits
and pieces one needs to assemble a high quality OpenType-based Unicode
text rendering pipeline with great flexibility. In this tutorial we
will go over the building blocks involved and how to put them
together.
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18:00-19:00 - Welcome
Reception hosted by Adobe Systems |
Thursday, October 15, 2009
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09:00-09:15 |
WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
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09:15-10:00
Nicholas Ostler
Chairman
Foundation Endangered Languages
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KEYNOTE Presentation:
The Alphabetic Principle and its Enemies
The alphabetic principle for writing seems brilliantly simple,
and its implementation, often subverting other options, has
often caused explosive growths in literacy, with important
historical consequences for cultural survival. Its great
advantages are economy of effort in the learner, and ready
application to new languages. However, it has drawbacks as to
speed for the initiated user, and also (by being essentially
mechanical and phonetic) in representing many of the cultural
overtones which people like their written language to have.
There is, too, a certain resistance to the role of art in
writing. But as alphabetic traditions age, becoming less purely
alphabetic, these disadvantages can be reduced. New structures
may emerge, meaningful patterns that leave alphabets far behind.
Alphabetic scripts have more recently revealed new aspects,
defining a convenient order to index anything, inspiring the
phonemic principle of structural linguistics, and later mapping
more easily than other systems onto digital systems, and hence a
whole new set of functions for written language. But the
alphabet remains a rather arbitrary means of representing
meanings, since its icons are parasitic on the particular sounds
of particular words in particular languages, a long way from
thoughts. |
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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:
Kirti Velankar
Senior Software
Engineer
Yahoo! Inc. |
Track 1 - Internationalization with PHP
PHP is one of the most prominent and popular platforms for
modern Web development. This updated session discusses PHP from
the perspective of internationalization, what some of the
challenges in PHP are, the features available in PHP 5, and the
promise of Unicode in PHP 6.
This session also includes examples and usage in practical
scenarios. You will learn how to effectively build applications
for multiple languages and cultures using PHP with some of the
new internationalization features such as locales, sorting,
resource bundles, as well as date, number and message
formatting.
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Presenter:
Ken Lunde
Senior Computer
Scientist
Adobe
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Track 2 - Designing & Developing Pan-CJK Fonts for Today
Designing and developing Pan-CJK fonts, meaning fonts whose
CJK Unified Ideographs can serve more than a single CJK locale,
region, or culture, is both challenging and time-consuming. But,
like most things that require effort, there are great rewards:
smaller overall font footprint, design consistency across
locales, and so on. In developing such fonts, there are
challenges related to the actual design of the glyphs, which
transcend any font format concerns. This presentation pinpoints
specific design and implementation problems that developers of
such fonts will face, and then details workable solutions. A
prototype Pan-CJK font will demonstrated during the
presentation. |
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Presenter:
Mark Davis
Sr.
Internationalization Architect
Google Inc. |
Track 3 - Unicode Update: Unicode 5.2 and CLDR 1.7
The 5.2 version of Unicode (Fall 09) adds many new
characters, new properties, and fixes to existing properties,
and is being issued as a complete online book. CLDR 1.7 (Spring
09) contains over 21% more locale data than the previous
release, with over 40,000 new or modified data items from over
140 different contributors, including Adobe, Apple, Google, IBM,
and Sun, plus official representatives from a number of
countries.
This presentation, from the president and co-founder of the
Unicode consortium, covers the new features of both standards,
examples of the impact on companies such as Google, and future
directions for these and other globalization standards -- the
new emoji characters, international domain names, Unicode
security, and others. |
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11:30-12:20 |
SESSION 2 |
Presenter:
Martin Duerst
Aoyama Gakuin
University
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Track 1 - Internationalization in Ruby 1.9
Ruby is a purely object-oriented scripting language which is
easy to learn for beginners and highly appreciated by experts
for its productivity and depth. Internationalization of Ruby
made a big leap forwards when this January, Ruby 1.9.1, the
first stable release of the Ruby 1.9 series, was released. While
previous versions of Ruby mostly treated text data as byte
sequences, strings in Ruby 1.9 are sequences of characters.
Because Ruby tags each string with encoding information
internally, different applications can choose different
internationalization models.
The presentation will give a short overview of Ruby as a
programming language, and introduce the new internationalization
features in detail. We will be concentrating on how to use Ruby
with Unicode, which in Ruby's case means UTF-8. We will also
discuss internationalization support in Ruby on Rails, the popular
Web application framework written in Ruby.
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Presenter:
Kamal Mansour
Manager of
Non-Latin Products
Monotype Imaging
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Track 2 - Unicode & Fonts: a status report
The adoption of Unicode as the universal character code
standard has profoundly changed the computing landscape. We now
expect to be able to exchange multilingual text documents across
platforms and software applications. Since its inception,
Unicode has cautiously distanced itself from the process of
displaying glyphs, delegating it to an external “rendering
layer” that includes fonts. Alongside Unicode, the OpenType
Standard has enabled new levels of sophistication in fonts.
However, one is often disappointed by a particular font doesn’t
work as it should. We will give a brief overview of what works
today and what we can expect in the future. |
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Presenters:
Deborah Anderson
Project Leader, Script Encoding
Initiative, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Richard Cook
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics
UC Berkeley
Charles Riley
Catalog Librarian for African Languages
Yale University
Anshuman Pandey
C.Phil. History
University of Michigan
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Track 3 - Patching Holes in the Unicode Pipeline: A Status Report on the
Unencoded Scripts of Asia and Africa
In 2002, 96 scripts listed on the Unicode Pipeline were
unencoded. Today,
the number is considerably smaller. Currently about 25 scripts
from Asia and
Africa remain unencoded, but they present particular challenges:
many are
not well-known and will involve considerable research to acquire
materials
and to track down experts. This session will be made up of 3
speakers who
have worked on South Asian and African script proposals. They
will discuss
the work that remains to be done and highlight specific issues
for
implementers. |
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12:30-13:30 - LUNCH |
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13:30-14:20 |
SESSION 3 |
Presenter:
Norbert Lindenberg
Internationalization
Architect
Yahoo! Inc.
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Track 1 - Internationalization for JavaScript
Applications
JavaScript, as defined by the EcmaScript standard and
implemented in browsers, is a rather weak platform for
internationalized web applications. Several toolkits have
attempted to fill the gap in different ways, ranging from
reliance on existing server-side internationalization libraries
to implementing the functionality in JavaScript itself. This
presentation surveys the landscape and compares the different
solutions.
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Presenter:
Ken Lunde
Senior Computer
Scientist
Adobe
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Track 2 - The Design & Development of Fully Proportional Japanese Fonts
Japanese fonts have traditionally been designed on the
principle that each glyph occupies a fixed design space. Some
fonts have overcome this principle by providing alternate
metrics, which really amount to pseudo proportional metrics. It
is possible to develop Japanese fonts whereby each glyph has
proportional metrics by default, in both horizontal and vertical
writing directions. In addition to the obvious design
challenges, there are also several technical hurdles related to
implementing the typeface design as an OpenType font. This
presentation details the unique design aspects of Kazuraki, a
fully-proportional Japanese font, along with details about its
OpenType implementation.
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Presenter:
Martin Duerst
Aoyama Gakuin
University
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Track 3 - Update on Internationalized Domain Names and Internationalized Resource Identifiers
In domain names such as www.unicode.org, only a limited
number of characters are allowed. This limitation also applies
to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) such as
http://www.unicode.org. Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
and Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) changed this a
few years ago, both allowing a wide range of characters from the
Unicode repertoire. The specifications underlying these
technologies are currently facing an overhaul, major for IDNs
and minor for IRIs. The long-overdue and now imminent
introduction of the first international top-level domain names
will mean that the importance of IDNs and IRIs will
significantly increase in the near future.
The presentation will give a general overview of IDNs and
IRIs and discuss the current revisions of the specifications in
detail. For IDNs, the set of allowed characters is defined using
an inclusion-based model rather than the earlier exclusion-based
model. Fixed tables are replaced by a property-based selection
process to avoid fixing the specification to a single version of
Unicode. The mapping step (dealing with casing and
normalization, among else) is moved out of the core libraries
and closer to the user to allow adaptions for special cases and
reduce user surprises. The IRI specification is being extended
with descriptions of widely used variants for handling
characters strictly speaking not allowed in IRIs. Both
specifications are affected by bug fixes to bidirectionality
restrictions.
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SESSION 4 |
Presenter:
Umesh Nair
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
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Track 1 - Implementing International Calendars in JavaScript
Conversion routines between the Gregorian calendar and
non-Gregorian calendars involve complex floating point
computations, large lookup tables and calendar-specific
computations. Floating point operations impact performance and
accuracy, while lookup tables impact memory footprint and
download time. Calendar-specific computations require special
algorithms and data structures. Implementing such algorithms
efficiently with compact data structures is essential for the
successful deployment of online calendars for the international
audience. This presentation discusses several such techniques
for calendrical calculations in client-side JavaScript. The
techniques described here are applicable to a number of other
areas in internationalization as well as general software usage
with JavaScript.
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Presenter:
Thomas Milo
President
DecoType
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Track 2 - The Unicode-based Koran: a
Conflict Between Calligraphic Tradition and Computer Typography
A technical talk about the practical problems encountered in
the project to produce a Unicode-based Koran on the behest of
the Omani Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs. The focus is
on the discrepancies discovered between the age-old calligraphic
tradition and the 1924 revision of the Koran. The pivotal issues
will be identified and explained. A workable solution will be
presented.
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Presenters:
Mark Davis
Sr.
Internationalization Architect
Google Inc.
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect
Lab126 (Amazon) |
Track 3 - Language Identification and
Usage
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. The latest version of BCP 47 (2009) incorporates over
7,000 new languages and many other improvements. This
presentation, from the authors of the updated and previous RFCs,
covers:
- the format of language tags and the language subtag
registry
- the matching algorithms for comparing language tags to
user preferences
- plus distance-based algorithms
- the new features in BCP 47 and their impact on developers
and how BCP 47 is being used in:
- Unicode locales (CLDR)
- prominent open-source libraries such as ICU
- companies such as Google and Amazon
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15:20-16:00 - Afternoon Refreshments in Exhibit Area |
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16:00-16:50 |
SESSION
5 |
Presenters:
Steven Loomis
Software Engineer
IBM
Markus Scherer
Unicode Software Engineer
Google Inc.
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Track 1 - What's New with ICU
The International Components for Unicode library, or ICU,
provides a full range of services for Unicode enablement, and is
the globalization foundation used by many software packages and
operating systems. Freely available as open-source, it provides
cross-platform C, C++ and Java APIs, with a thread-safe
programming model. This presentation will provide a brief
overview of ICU, with emphasis on the current status of ICU
(4.2), including the latest support for Unicode 5.1 and CLDR
1.7, and an update on ICU’s planned direction for 4.4 and
future releases.
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Presenters:
Michael Manca
Project Manager and
Solution Quality Analyst
IT Flex Services
Intel Corporation
Tomas Galicia
Solutions Quality Analyst
IT Flex Service
Intel Corporation
Loic Dufresne de Virel
Localization
Strategist
IT Flex Services
Intel Corporation
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Track 2 - A Systematic Approach to I18N Testing
Building on last year's presentation "We're
World-Ready, What Does This Really Mean?", Intel's
localization experts will present and discuss the steps they
follow, the tools they use, and their overall I18N testing
philosophy. They will explain in details how they proceed when
working with development teams to ensure applications are
properly internationalized before they're released or localized.
Based on recent I18N testing efforts conducted by Intel, this
interactive session will provide a solid framework of reference
for I18N testing, as well as valuable pointers that can be
easily and directly applied to your own localization projects or
reused within your organization.
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Presenter:
Toshiya Suzuki
Research Assistant
Hiroshima University |
Track 3 - Investigation of Opaque Glyphs
Synthesized from Old Hanzi
After the long efforts during 7 years, finally ISO/IEC
10646:2008 have included CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C. It
has 366 glyphs taken from "Index to Collections of the
Inscriptions in Yin-Zhou period" (I2CIYZ) proposed by PRC,
and more glyphs are scheduled for future Extension E project.
They are suspected to be the glyphs invented only for the
specification of Old Hanzi. In this report, the source is
investigated and compared with existing dictionaries for Bronze
scripts. The requirements of some glyph shapes are questionable,
the expected procedure to standardize these opaque glyphs is
discussed. |
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SESSION
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Presenter:
Behdad Esfahbod
Software Developer
Red Hat/GNOME
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Track 1 - HarfBuzz, the Free and Open OpenType Shaping Engine
In this session we will introduce HarfBuzz, the unified Free
Software and Open Source, OpenType-based, text shaping engine.
We will discuss design considerations, technical decisions made,
and performance and other features that make HarfBuzz an
attractive alternative to the existing OpenType engines.
HarfBuzz is already being used by both GNOME and KDE desktop
environments and is at the heart of the GTK+ and Qt desktop and
mobile platforms, with others planning to use it in the coming
months, including Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, and ICU
Layout.
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Presenters:
Andrew Swerdlow
Internationalization Tech Program Mng
Google Inc.
Manish Bhargava
Google Inc.
Jens Riegelsberger
Google Inc.
Laura Cuozzo
Google Inc.
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Track 2 - Google Internationalization Quality Control Framework
There are many obstacles to a great international user
experience. There is a range of issues that cut across
organizational boundaries, such as localization,
internationalization, visual design, interaction design,
business analysis, usability analysis, and market research.
Against this backdrop we at Google started experimenting with a
standardized review framework that relies on a global network of
external evaluators. These evaluators live in market and thus
are familiar with local standards and practices. This framework
allows us to identify themes that may point to requirements that
are common across multiple regions aiding in prioritizing
features or giving resources to projects. |
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Presenter:
Murry Sargent III
Partner Software
Design Engineer
Microsoft
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Track 3 - Math Editing and Display in Microsoft Office
Math editing is described that uses math context menus, a
math ribbon, keyboard navigation, and formula autobuildup in
Microsoft Office 2010. The math typography is similar to TeX’s,
the input methods are state of the art, the math character set
is Unicode’s, and the environment is Office’s, which comes
with the many features one expects from a leading office suite.
Demonstrations will be given using Office 2010.
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18:00-20:00
- IUC32 CONFERENCE RECEPTION
(IN EXHIBIT AREA) |
Friday, October 16, 2009
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09:00-09:50 |
SESSION
7 |
Presenter:
Douglas Davidson
Software
Engineer
Apple, Inc. |
Track 1 - International Features of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
From its inception, Mac OS X has been designed with
top-to-bottom international and multilingual support. The
latest version, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, expands on
that with new bidirectional input support, multilingual
spellchecking, and many other new features. This session
covers the international capabilities of Mac OS X from
both a user and a developer perspective, with a particular
emphasis on new features in Snow Leopard. Topics covered
include localization, locale data, text input, text
display, proofing tools, and user customization.
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Presenter:
Brent Ramerth
Software Engineer
Apple, Inc.
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Track
2 - International Features of iPhone OS
The iPhone OS platform starts with the
internationalization architecture fundamental to Mac OS X,
and adds a unique virtual keyboard and text input system
that handles a wide array of languages. This session
covers the international capabilities of the platform from
both a user and a developer perspective, with particular
attention to iPhone-specific features. Topics covered
include localization, text display, and text input.
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Presenter:
Elizabeth Pyatt
Instructional
Designer
Penn State |
Track
3 - Practical "Unicode Logic" for Online Tech Courses
This session describes some of the challenges and
workarounds for implementing Unicode content in two online
courses in symbolic logic and thermodynamics. Topics
include development utilities, templates and guidance for
students, issues with multiple applications and font
selection across platforms. The presentation will also
discuss some differences between implementing Unicode for
math courses and Unicode for foreign language courses.
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SESSION
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Presenter:
Derek Murnam
Senior Program
Manager
Microsoft Corporation |
Track 1 - Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications
This session centers on the new globalization features for Windows 7, including sorting and string comparison, locale support, and coverage for new languages, with an eye to helping developers extend their applications to a global user base. In addition to introducing the Extended Linguistic Services API, this session will also cover the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) resource technology available in Windows 7. This session will provide an end-to-end look at how to make your application world-ready so that you can easily take your application worldwide and extend your customer base into new language markets.
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Presenters:
Markus Scherer
Unicode Software
Engineer
Google Inc.
Katsuhiko Momoi
Staff Test Engineer & I18n
Consultant
Google Inc.
Mark Davis
Sr.
Internationalization Architect
Google Inc.
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Track
2 - Emoji in Unicode: Cell Phones Meet the Internet
Emoji" symbols or "picture characters" are
used in email by more than 80 million Japanese cell phone
users. They are treated as characters, via vendor-specific
extensions of the Japanese character sets. Other email
providers have to be able to exchange emails with the
Japanese cell phone companies without losing or corrupting
data. Most email providers use Unicode, requiring
conversion of mail data to/from Unicode. Unicode Private
Use characters are used for this purpose. However, they do
not provide for reliable public interchange. For a
permanent solution, the Unicode Consortium has approved
the addition of the Emoji symbols to Unicode 6.0, and is
working with ISO to ensure inclusion in the corresponding
version of ISO 10646. This paper presents the state and
progress of the Unicode encoding proposal with an overview
of the Emoji symbols.
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Presenter:
Adam Asnes
President
Lingoport, Inc.
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Track
3 - Creating an I18n Project Plan
Many initial internationalization scoping efforts
focus on creating findings documents. But often the real
trick is gathering accurate metrics and turning them into
realistic, budge table and actionable project plans. In
this presentation we will demonstrate how we assess source
code and architecture, and then review a detailed project
plan and how we arrived at tasks, durations and staffing.
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11:10-12:00 |
SESSION
9 |
Presenter:
Mihai Nita
Globalization
Architect
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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Track 1 - Accessing Globalization Services on Multiple Operating Systems
This presentation will cover the experience gained by
implementing a cross platform C library that makes use of
the operating system dependent services for the following
language and region specific functionality. In contrast to
ICU which carries its own set of locale data, this
solution provides a cross platform set of APIs but uses
the facilities provided by the operating system. This
presentation will explore the pros and cons of such an
approach, trade-offs, implementation issues, major traps,
and some of the surprises we encountered.
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Presenters:
Loic Dufresne de Virel
Localization
Strategist
IT Flex Services
Intel Corporation
Michael Kuperstein
Senior Localization Engineer
IT Flex Services
Intel Corporation
Margie Foster
Localization Project Manager
Moblin Project
Intel Corporation
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Track
2 - Taking Moblin to the World
When the Moblin project asked for our help to localize
their application, our initial reaction was enthusiastic!
"Finally a cool open-source project to work on",
we thought! After getting back to our senses, we realized
that localizing Moblin (Moblin stands for Mobile Linux)
was not our typical localization project... Far from it!
In this session, we will review the thought process we
followed to define and limit the scope of this significant
undertaking, give an update on the current status of this
on-going project, explain how we addressed the first major
challenges of this amazing journey, and provide an
overview of the first-ever attempt at community-based
translation by Intel's localization team.
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Presenter:
Cindy Conlin
Senior Engineer
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints
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Track
3 -
Building a Global Names System: A Case Study
This case study discusses our experience building a
global names application containing records for all
members of the LDS Church worldwide. We'll discuss the
interesting challenges and requirements we face, such as
building a data structure flexible enough to accommodate
names from multiple cultures simultaneously. We'll talk
about using ICU's transliteration functionality to
generate romanizations of non-Latin names, and about our
experience supporting private-use characters in Chinese
names. We'll also discuss how we've created a user
interface that allows users from multiple locales to work
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13:00-13:50 |
SESSION
10 |
Presenter:
Sumit Sarkar
i18n Product
Specialist
DataDirect Technologies
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Track 1 - Internationalization in
Database Drivers for C/C++/Java/.NET Applications
Everything you want to know about i18n and database
drivers across C/C++/Java/.NET programming languages.
Discussion starts by asking what Unicode support
encompasses at the Database Access API level, and what
components affect Unicode Support. Take a closer look
under the covers at the low level data access across major
RDBMS including DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase. This
includes identifying who is doing the conversions at each
component of the data access application layer. To
summarize and apply the learned concepts, host will answer
key questions about your globalized application's data
access: Why should conversions be avoided when possible;
and what high level features of a database driver are
recommended?
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Steven Loomis
Software
Engineer
IBM
Mark Davis
Sr.
Internationalization Architect
Google Inc.
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Track
2 - Deploying the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)
The Common Locale Data Repository is a project for the
exchange of language and locale information used in
application development, and to gather, store, and make
such data publicly available. By pooling resources, the
time and expense of collecting good data is minimized, and
language groups have an avenue to get their data into
implementations. This session will discuss implementation
of CLDR, the latest project status, and how the process is
being improved to produce higher-quality data. Ample time
will be given for comments and questions from the
audience.
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Presenter:
Chris Weber
Casaba Security
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Track
3 - Unicode Transformations and Security Vulnerabilities
Web-applications are being exploited every day as
attackers find new vectors for performing cross-site
scripting attacks. This talk will cover ways which latent
character and string handling can transform clever inputs
into malicious outputs. Many application frameworks such
as .NET and ICU enable these behaviors without the
developer's knowledge. String transformations through
best-fit mappings, casing operations, normalization,
over-consumption and other means will be discussed, with
inputs useful for testing. A testing tool is also planned
for release.
The current state of visual spoofing attacks will also
be discussed. Phishing attacks are prevalent on the Web,
and well-designed URL's can increase an attack's chance of
success. It's eye-opening to see demonstrations of just
how vulnerable modern Web browsers still are to many forms
of visual spoofing attacks.
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14:00-14:50 |
SESSION 11 |
Presenter:
Su Liu
AIX Globalization Architect
IBM
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Track 1 - Unicode Technology and Globalization Support
in IBM UNIX, AIX
AIX, an IBM UNIX, supports more than 60 languages and
about 250 locales. Unicode is a key technology to support
globalization features to meet different national language
requirements. This presentation discusses Unicode impacts
on globalization strategy and mechanism in UNIX operating
system level. It focuses on how Unicode technologies are
used to simplify globalization configurations first. Then,
topics are covered on Unicode impacts on system
performance, locale data test, and national language
support procedure. Examples are given to explain show
Unicode support on complex texts, CJK input methods,
Unicode conversions, and automated tests. A further
looking into Unicode highlights customization subjects on
user-defined locale settings and user-defined Unicode
conversion tables. Finally, issues in implementations,
market requirements and solutions for future Unicode
support in UNIX are assessed. |
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Presenters:
Benedicto Franco Jr.
Software Engineer
Yahoo! Inc.
Marco Aurelio Carvalho
Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo! Inc.
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Track
2 - CLDR on the Cloud
The value of CLDR (Common Locale Data Repository) for
global applications is undeniable. But how do you update
time zone and daylight saving rules, or a new currency, or
geo-political changes that might be relevant for the
application without taking the inherent risks and costs of
a release deployment process? In this presentation, we are
going to talk about a solution that exposes CLDR as a
service and how CLDR on the Cloud can be used to help
create robust internationalized JavaScript and Ajax
applications fed by CLDR data published in JSON format
ubiquitously.
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Presenter:
Tex Texin
Xen Master
XenCraft
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Track
3 - My Unicode Disk Storage 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. The
presentation will describe the problem space. It may offer
possible solutions.
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14:50 – 15:10 - Afternoon Refreshments |
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15:10 - 16:00 |
SESSION 12 |
Presenters:
Ryan Cavalcante
Software
Development Engineer
Microsoft
James Lyle
Program Manager
Microsoft
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Track 1 - Extended Linguistic Services in Windows 7
In this presentation we will discuss the Extended
Linguistic Services (ELS) platform, new to Windows 7,
which provides diverse linguistic services to developers
through a common API. We will discuss the linguistic
services now available to developers through the ELS
platform in Windows 7—Language Detection, Script
Detection, and various Transliteration services—as well
as the future vision for the platform.
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Presenter:
Adil Allawi
Technical Director
Diwan Software Limited
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Track
2 - Mashing-up Bi-Di
Mash-ups is a relatively new fashionable word on the
Web - taking bits of other web sites to build up your own
web page. It is not new or special - any search engine
showing a snippet of a web site that it has found is a
form of mash-up. Integrating a news or micro-blogging feed
is another. And it seems that every company and their
mother has its own mash-up API. But what happens when you
have an Arabic web-site integrate content that may be
Arabic or English or both? The Unicode Bi-Di Algorithm can
render text and numbers unreadable. URL's may become
unusable or, in the worst case, direct to fraudulent
sites. It can be hard to predict how to mark-up the
integrated content for the right result. This presentation
will cover real world issues and attempt to suggest
practical solutions.
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Presenter:
Jim DeLaHunt
Principal
Jim DeLaHunt & Associates
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Track
3 - Twanguages of the World: a Language Census of Twitter
What "twanguage" do you "tweet"?
Twitter, the buzzing conversation of brief web and SMS messages,
exploded into wide use in 2009. But just how wide? To how
many countries has it spread? And into which languages? We
aimed to find out. Our "Twanguage" project is a
language census on a sample of Twitter's global traffic.
Come hear our findings. Which are the top languages? Are #hashtags
localized? How does language correlate with location? And
which Unicode character is the most rarely used?
Accessible to everyone, this talk is especially
interesting to students of social media and of quantative
language analysis.
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16:10 - 17:00 |
SESSION
13 |
Presenters:
Frank Yung-Fong Tang
Sr. Software
Engineer
Google Inc.
Wenchao Tong
Software Engineer
Google Inc.
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Track 1 - Google APIs for Text
Input and Translation
In this talk, we introduce several Google public APIs
to empower web developer build more powerful
internationalized web site, including, but not limited to:
- Use Google AJAX Language API and element API to
perform Machine Translation
- Use Google AJAX Language API and element API to
empower user to input text of different language by
transliteration
- Use Maps in Google Chart API and Geomap in Google
Visualization API to represent information divided by
geographical distribution
For each of these topics, we will first introduce the
issues, following by the brief description of the API, and
demonstrate with some real Google or non Google products
which utilize these APIs. Short sample codes will also be
walk though.
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Presenter:
Roozbeh Pournader
Internationalization
Specialist
HighTech Passport
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Track
2 - Bidirectionalization: Demystifying Bidi Enabling
Bidirectionalization, or enabling software to be usable to people who write
in bidirectional languages like Arabic and Hebrew, has
sometimes been discarded as a superfluous and strenuous
endeavor. This presentation will explain why bidi enabling
is a must for every application and website intended for
bidirectional users of the Middle East, as well as for
other parts of Asia and Africa. It will also include
suggestions on how to plan for, design, code, and test the
bidirectionalization of such applications and sites. Last
but not least, it will cover common internationalization
requirements for the Middle East, including alternative
calendars, local digits, and geopolitical sensitivities.
The intended audience of this presentation are
developers, software architects, and managers planning to
bidirectionalize their software or add support for other
requirements of the bidirectional language markets.
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Presenter:
Ilya Shtein
IT Architect
Metavante
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Track
3 - Banking in the Cloud: Challenges of Internationalizing Banking Software (Case Study)
Based on the experience of building the Metavante
Global Banking platform, we will discuss the challenges of
internationalization in a distributed, service-oriented,
heterogeneous banking environment.
Internationalization in the banking industry presents a
number of challenges, such as the large number of legacy
applications that do not share the same terminology and
the need for further terminology customization on multiple
hierarchy levels, as well as transactions spanning
multiple locales and time zones.
We will talk about the applicability of Unicode and
Unicode standards in different architecture layers, using
W3C-i18n recommendations, and discuss the effect the
listed challenges have on internationalization decisions.
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