Patent ID: 7814415
Filing Date: 2010-10-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for converting computer-readable information from a first format to a second format, comprising: receiving information provided by a computer program, the information including data in the first format and a markup tag embedded in said data; invoking a stored instruction from a Unicode vendor specific code space corresponding to the embedded markup tag; and executing the instruction by operating on the data in the first format to convert it to corresponding data in the second format, the executing includes performing a localization function based on the stored instruction such that the data in the first format is altered based on a desired output form of the second format, wherein the first format corresponds to a first language and the second format corresponds to a second language different from the first language, and a change can be made to the stored instruction without requiring a corresponding change to the computer program, and wherein the markup tag indicates how the data is to be handled, and the instruction from the Unicode vendor specific code space is used to alter the data based on a context dependent rule for translating from the first language to the second language.