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Programming instructions and examples
An online tutorial that explains how to use the Java 2 SDK Internationalization API.
The portal site for IBM's open-source API to extend basic Unicode support in Java application components.
Programming specifications
The Java internationalization documentation from Sun Microsystems, including a list of supported locales and encodings.
The specification of the J2EE internationalization service that is currently being developed through the Java Community Process.
The task force of the W3C's Internationalization Working Group responsible for investigating the internationalization of Web services, in particular, the dependence of Web services on language, culture, region, and locale-related contexts.
The W3C effort to make World Wide Web technology work with the many writing systems, languages, and cultural conventions of the global community:
Related concepts
Internationalization
Related tasks
Task overview: Internationalizing applications
Task overview: Internationalizing interface strings (localizable-text API)
Task overview: Internationalizing application components (internationalization service)
Related reference
Web services: Resources for learning