CJKV Information Processing

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Guide to East Asian text processing intricacies.

If you're delving into the world of multilingual software development or want to understand the complexities of CJKV character encoding, this book is a treasure. Ken Lunde offers insights that are critical for anyone looking to navigate the nuances of handling text in East Asian languages. Whether you're a coder, a typographer, or a language enthusiast, you'll find this authoritative guide an indispensable resource for your projects.

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CJKV Information Processing

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ISBN: 9780596514471
Authors: Ken Lunde
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Date of Publication: 2008-12-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Science
Related Topics: Computers
Goodreads rating: 3.79
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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, and 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
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Guide to East Asian text processing intricacies.

If you're delving into the world of multilingual software development or want to understand the complexities of CJKV character encoding, this book is a treasure. Ken Lunde offers insights that are critical for anyone looking to navigate the nuances of handling text in East Asian languages. Whether you're a coder, a typographer, or a language enthusiast, you'll find this authoritative guide an indispensable resource for your projects.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.