September meeting of the Mountain View Java Users Group

Date: Wednesday, September 29th, 1999
Time: 7.00pm-9.00pm
Location: Xerox PARC (Parc Research Center Auditorium), Palo Alto.
 see directions below

Agenda:
7.00 to 7.05-Announcements
7.05 to 8.15-Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, and Thai support in Java2
by Doug Felt and John Raley, IBM
8.15 to 8.30-Q&A
8.30 to 8.45-Product Demos if any..

(All are welcome, no membership fee, no prior reservation necessary)
Note: For the "Announcements" section if you have something you would like announced, or any "News" (upcoming conferences, information about similar groups, applets...etc) please send mail to (Sudhakar Ramakrishnan) sudha@best.com prior to the meeting. A bulletin board would be placed for product announcements/job openings/miscellaneous announcements.

Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, and Thai support in Java2

by Doug Felt and John Raley

The Java2 platform provides the foundation for supporting a wide variety languages and customs. Text is represented with the Unicode character set, which covers most scripts in use today. Additionally, Java2 provides services for localized text processing, orientation of components in a user interface, and a rich set of capabilities for displaying and interacting with visually complex text.

This talk describes how the Java2 platform supports right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew, Thai, and the Devanagari writing system, used to write Hindi.

Biography: Doug Felt and John Raley

Doug Felt is Project Lead for Complex Text in Java at the IBM Centre for Java Technology. As part of the Text and International team at Taligent and at the CJT, he contributed to the development of the bidirectional text support in JDK 1.2 and in Swing.

Doug worked on the original RichEdit control at Taligent, and ported the bidirectional text classes to JDK 1.1.

Doug is a graduate of Stanford University.

John Raley , Software Engineer, IBM Corporation John Raley is a Staff Software Engineer at the IBM Centre for Java Technology. As part of the Text and International team at Taligent and at the CJT, he contributed to the development of the bidirectional text support in JDK 1.2.

John worked on the original RichEdit control at Taligent, and was responsible for enabling the control for bidirectional text at the CJT.

John has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Directions:

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(415) 812-4000

>From 280 south

Exit at Page Mill Road and drive towards Palo Alto. Turn right onto Coyote Hill Road. As you drive up Coyote Hill past the horse pastures, PARC is the building on the left after you crest the hill.

>From 101

Exit at Oregon Expway. Follow Oregon Expway which will become Page Mill Road. After crossing Foothill Expressway, turn left into Coyote Hill Road. As you drive up Coyote Hill past the horse pastures, PARC is the building on the left after you crest the hill.
Park in the large parking lot, and enter the auditorium at the upper level of the building. (The auditorium entrance is located down the stairs and to the left of the main doors.) Click here for a map.


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Last Updated : September 22, 1999