Microsoft SDK for Java

Internationalization Support

The global connectivity provided by the Internet will increase the demand for internationalized software products and place additional requirements on internationalized applications. For example, applications that are delivered and run over the Internet may need to adapt to the user's language at runtime. Other applications will need to be multilingual and support a combination of different languages. Java was designed to support internationalization; its primitive character type is based on Unicode, an international standard for encoding written language elements.

The Microsoft SDK for Java provides the following enhanced internationalization features:

The enhanced internationalization support is provided by the following Microsoft packages:

In addition to the enhanced support provided by the packages in the preceding list, the Microsoft virtual machine includes fully functional versions of the java.lang.Runtime methods getLocalizedInputStream and getLocalizedOutputStream.

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