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In this in-depth technical discussion, Dr.\xa0Ken Lunde helps Elecia understand how to internationalize her (memory constrained) device.

CJVK Information Processing, Ken\u2019s excellent O\u2019Reilly book on internationalization [Note: there is a 40% off print and 50% off ebook coupon in the last few minutes of the show.]

Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Images of the bone ideograph that is different between Chinese and Japanese (U+9AA8) can be found on Wikipedia.

Other sources of information:\xa0

• Ken\u2019s\xa0CJK Type Blog\xa0at Adobe
• Unicode specification, surprisingly readable though large\xa0
• An\xa0introductory tutorial\xa0\xa0Elecia found helpful

Open source type faces

• Source Sans Pro\xa0OpenType font family (for UIs)
• Source Code Pro\xa0OpenType font family (for programming environments)

Adobe\u2019s open source projects and Ken\u2019s contribution to those:

• Adobe Blank is a special-purpose OpenType font, making webpages wait to load fonts until they have the correct one
• AGL and AGLFN (Adobe Glyph List) maps glyph names to Unicode values
• CMap Resources are used to unidirectionally map character codes
• CSS Orientation Test\xa0are lightweight and special-purpose OpenType fonts that map all Unicode code points to glyphs that indicate their orientation based on the writing direction.
• Kenten Generic OpenType Font\xa0 provides glyphs suitable for typesetting emphasis marks in Japanese.
• Mapping Resources for PDF are used to derive content from PDF files that include CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) information.\xa0

You can also reach Ken via lunde "at" adobe.com\xa0\xa0