Internationalization Articles and References

Java was designed to support internationalization—its primitive character type is based on Unicode, which is an international standard for encoding written language elements. The Microsoft SDK for Java enhances the internationalization features of Java with support for local character set encoding, Microsoft® Win32® resources, locales, vertical writing, and Java-based input method editors (IMEs).

Articles

The Internationalization article provides a comprehensive overview of the internationalization support in the SDK for Java.

The LCID reference lists Win32 LCID values used for localization of resources.

References

Enhanced internationalization support is provided by the following Microsoft packages:

Package com.ms.ui.resource	Provides support for using Win32 resources in Java applications.
Package com.ms.lang	Includes the SystemX class that provides system-level internationalization services, such as managing IMEs and converting strings between local code pages and Unicode.
Package com.ms.util.InputMethod	Provides support for creating Java-based IMEs.
Package java.util	Includes the java.util.Locale class, with additional locales and methods for retrieving the Win32 locale identifiers and code pages.