Nineteenth International Unicode Conference

The Nineteenth International Unicode Conference was held September 2001 in San Jose, CA. The following presentations weregiven by Microsoft representatives:

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	Developing Unicode Based Globalized Applications for Windows XP
	Building International Applications with Visual Studio.NET
	Unicode and Windows XP
	Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office
	The MS Layer for Unicode (MSLU) on Windows 95/98/ME Systems
	XML Query
	Issues in Indic Language Collation

Developing Unicode Based Globalized Applications for Windows XP

This 3 hour tutorial explains the advantages of investing in World–Ready applications and features offered by Windows 2000 to achieve these goals. Then the core part of the tutorial focus on the globalization process. All the considerations and challenges that should should be known ahead of time will be described step–bystep.

Developing Unicode Based Globalized Applications for Windows XP
(3.8MB PowerPoint presentation)
Houman Pournasseh, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.
Russ Rolfe, Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.

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Building International Applications with Visual Studio.NET

This talk covers how Visual Studio.NET allows working with Unicode source files and projects and internationalization enhancements for developers working with native C++ code and internationalization support for application deployment is introduced.

Building International Applications with Visual Studio.NET
(97KB PowerPoint presentation)
Achim Ruopp, International Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.

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Unicode and Windows XP

This paper outlines the new international support in Windows XP, describes this support within the historical context of Unicode on the Windows NT platform, discusses how language support is integrated into a single worldwide source, and finally, demonstrates that Unicode support is essential to building a fully globalized operating system.

Unicode and Windows XP
Cathy Wissink, Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.

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Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office

This talk emphasis the implementation of new languages in Office XP via the use of Unicode.

Unicode in the Next Release of Microsoft Office
(378KB PowerPoint presentation)
Chris Pratley, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.

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The MS Layer for Unicode (MSLU) on Windows 95/98/ME Systems

Learn more about Microsoft's Layer for Unicode that provides a layer over the Win32 API on Windows 95/98/ME. This allows you to write a single Unicode version of your application that runs properly on all platforms, Windows 9x, ME, NTx, 2000 and XP.

The MS Layer for Unicode (MSLU) on Windows 95/98/ME Systems
Cathy Wissink, Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.
Michael S. Kaplan, President, Trigeminal Software, Inc.

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XML Query

Provides an update on the current status of the W3C XML Query WG (Work Group). The talk also outlines the relationship of the work of the XML Query WG to other W3C XML standards especially XML Schema and XPath [12] and to the work of the W3C Internalization WG.

XML Query
(108KB PowerPoint presentation)
Paul Cotton – Microsoft Canada

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Issues in Indic Language Collation

This paper clarifies the distinction between character encoding and collation and demonstrates that, if collation is implemented correctly, they are not equivalent concepts in Indic languages.

Issues in Indic Language Collation
Cathy Wissink, Program Manager, Microsoft Corp.