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International String Class
White Paper In the current world business environment handling different languages and character sets is an everyday problem. Handling multiple languages and character sets has become the problem too. While there are some problems with multi-language TMRs... [03 Jul 2008]
HP-UX 9.x - 11i Internationalization Features White Paper
White Paper For alphabets of more than 256 characters, such as Traditional Chinese or Kanji, multi-byte character codes are required. For such languages, several encoding schemes have been defined. The purpose of this document is to present the changes made to... [03 Jul 2008]
The Internationalization Features of SourcePro C++
White Paper The Internationalization Module offers support for: Managing text in any language (or languages), Easily converting between hundreds of different character encodings and Storing and accessing locale-dependent data. [03 Jul 2008]
Globalization and National Language Support for Your Version 8.2 SAS Environment
White Paper The FILE, FILENAME and INFILE statements support the new ENCODING= option that enables users to dynamically change the character set encoding for processing external data. With the 8.2 release, SAS expands and simplifies its support for national... [30 Jun 2008]
Linguistic Collation: Everyone Can Get What They Expect - Sensible Sorting for Global Business Success
White Paper In "Creating Order out of Character Chaos: Collation Capabilities of the SAS System" the authors describe the collation capabilities offered by PROC SORT in SAS and explain their respective applicability, advantages, and the processing... [31 May 2008]
XML Application Migration From DB2 8.x to DB2 Viper, Part 2: Compare XML Functionality in DB2 Viper to XML Functionality in DB2 V8.x
White Paper XML data was either stored intact as a Character Large Object (CLOB) or shredded to relational tables. XML indexing based on an XML pattern has been introduced, along with support for XQuery and SQL/XML as the languages to query and publish XML data. [09 Apr 2008]
XML Application Migration From DB2 8.x to DB2 Viper, Part 1: Partial Updates to XML Documents in DB2 Viper
White Paper Previous to the DB2 Viper release, XML data was either stored intact as a Character Large Object (CLOB) or shredded to relational tables. XML indexing based on an XML pattern has been introduced, along with support for XQuery and SQL/XML as the... [09 Apr 2008]
Instantiating JavaCC Tokenizers/Parsers to Read From Unicode Source Files
White Paper This paper explains how to instantiate a JavaCC parser to read from a source (file or whatever) that is not necessarily in the default character encoding of one's operating system. JavaCC is a popular parser-generator used to implement parsers for... [27 Jun 2007]
Google puts cash into handwriting recognition tech
News Google is sponsoring an artificial-intelligence research group's work to develop advanced technologies for character recognition. The "ocr" in Ocropus stands for optimal character recognition. IUPR is basing the software primarily on two research... [11 Apr 2007]
Writing Better SQL Using Regular Expressions
White Paper A new feature of Oracle Database 10g vastly improves the ability to search and manipulate character data. It has long been available in many programming languages and a number of UNIX utilities. This feature, regular expressions, is a notation for... [13 Oct 2006]
Unicode Enables Globalization
White Paper Unicode is the default encoding for XML, is required by LDAP, is the underlying character set used by Java and Windows XP, and more. As computer applications became more global, driving the need to support characters from languages the world over... [13 Oct 2006]
Icann tests global domain names
News One challenge in implementing multilingualism on the internet is the preparation of content in the numerous languages, alphabets, scripts, and character-sets that must be accommodated. But people in Asian and Arabic countries, whose languages can... [17 Mar 2006]
Firefox update plugs phishing hole
News The open-source project released Firefox 1.0.1 to fix, among other bugs, a vulnerability in the Internationalised Domain Names (IDN), a standard for handling special character sets in domain names that lets companies register domain names that... [28 Feb 2005]
Star Books Gothenburg Library for TSP700 Receipt Printers
White Paper The world's fastest printer in is class, the TSP700 outputs two-colour print at 180mm per second and was selected by the library because of easy 'drop in an print' paper loading, its 'full-cut' auto-cutter, inclusion as standard of Swedish... [17 Feb 2005]
Dodgy characters create phishing flaw in browsers
News A security weakness in a standard for handling special character sets in domain names could let an attacker spoof websites on non-Microsoft browsers, a researcher has warned. There are now many ways to display any domain name on a browser, as there... [08 Feb 2005]
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