CJKV Information Processing

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc.", Jan 13, 2009 - Computers - 864 pages

First published a decade ago, CJKV Information Processing quickly became the unsurpassed source of information on processing text in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. It has now been thoroughly updated to provide web and application developers with the latest techniques and tools for disseminating information directly to audiences in East Asia. This second edition reflects the considerable impact that Unicode, XML, OpenType, and newer operating systems such as Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux have had on East Asian text processing in recent years.

Written by its original author, Ken Lunde, a Senior Computer Scientist in CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems, this book will help you:

  • Learn about CJKV writing systems and scripts, and their transliteration methods
  • Explore trends and developments in character sets and encodings, particularly Unicode
  • Examine the world of typography, specifically how CJKV text is laid out on a page
  • Learn information-processing techniques, such as code conversion algorithms and how to apply them using different programming languages
  • Process CJKV text using different platforms, text editors, and word processors
  • Become more informed about CJKV dictionaries, dictionary software, and machine translation software and services
  • Manage CJKV content and presentation when publishing in print or for the Web

Internationalizing and localizing applications is paramount in today's global market -- especially for audiences in East Asia, the fastest-growing segment of the computing world. CJKV Information Processing will help you understand how to develop web and other applications effectively in a field that many find difficult to master.

 

Contents

CJKV Information Processing overview 1
1
Advice to Readers
31
Character set standards 3
79
Advice to Developers
188
Legacy Encoding Methods
221
Code Conversion
282
User Interface Concerns
322
Input Method Software
355
output Methods 8
545
Output via Display
552
Information Processing techniques 9
567
oses text editors and Word Processors 10
623
Text Editors
642
Word Processors
648
dictionaries and dictionary software 11
655
Ideograph Dictionaries
664

Bitmapped Font Formats
370
Font Development Tools
444
Gaiji Handling
452
Advice to Developers
471
LineLength Issues
512
Multilingual Typography
516
Annotations
525
Web and Print Publishing 12
691
Network Domains
700
Where to Go Next?
727
Bibliography
813
Index
839
Copyright

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About the author (2009)

Ken Lunde was born in 1965 in Madison, Wisconsin, grew up in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, and entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985 as a freshman. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in linguistics in 1987. He received his Master of Arts degree in linguistics in 1988. He finally received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in linguistics in 1994, and his dissertation was entitled "Prescriptive Kanji Simplification." He joined Adobe Systems Incorporated in 1991, and is currently Project Manager, CJK Type Development.