Apple's two most recent additions to its line of Language Kits are the Korean Language Kit and the Indian Language Kit. In Fall 1996, Apple shipped the Korean Language Kit, a system level solution for multilingual computing in Korean. In February, Apple released the Indian Language Kit, a system level solution for multilingual computing in Hindi, Gujarati, and Punjabi. Apple engineers will demo and discuss these products and describe methods developers can use to take advantage of them. Anne Ogborn is the engineering tech lead for language kits.
Red Park is a software engineer for language kits.
Lee Richardson will discuss the development strategy used for the 5.2J Mac release, and cover ongoing technical issues in taking Asian features cross-platform. With the Rosemary release, Magic Cap has for the first time been internationalized and localized into Japanese. Tetsuo Seto and Norbert Lindenberg will demo the Japanese version and show you its user interface, text input, name handling and sorting, and support for Japanese standards. They will also explain the underlying internationalization architecture, its localizable services and the new text-object based APIs.