First published a decade ago, CJKV Information Processing quickly became the unsurpassed source of information on processing text in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. It has now been thoroughly updated to provide web and application developers with the latest techniques and tools for disseminating information directly to audiences in East Asia. This second edition reflects the considerable impact that Unicode, XML, OpenType, and newer operating systems such as Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux have had on East Asian text processing in recent years. Written by its original author, Ken Lunde, a Senior Computer Scientist in CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems, this book will help you:

• Learn about CJKV writing systems and scripts, and their transliteration methods

• Explore trends and developments in character sets and encodings, particularly Unicode

• Examine the world of typography, specifically how CJKV text is laid out on a page

• Learn information-processing techniques, such as code conversion algorithms and how to apply them using different programming languages

• Process CJKV text using different platforms, text editors, and word processors

• Become more informed about CJKV dictionaries, dictionary software, and machine translation software and services

• Manage CJKV content and presentation when publishing in print or for the Web

Internationalizing and localizing applications is paramount in today's global market -- especially for audiences in East Asia, the fastest-growing segment of the computing world. CJKV Information Processing will help you understand how to develop web and other applications effectively in a field that many find difficult to master.

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Buy this if you write international software - it's that simple - 2005-06-30
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From this book I learnt (about 3 years ago) to add support for Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Korean to a number of top-selling PC Games (plus support utils). The tables within it *are* useful, despite what other reviews have said, as a way of testing your onscreen output. I also found the author to be very helpful when I emailed him with the odd query , and he was encouraging when I shared my findings on Thai (not covered by this book, but principles learnt from it enabled me to work it out) with him. One of the best reference books I've got.

Get the confidence! - 2007-10-21
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If you would like to start developing software that supports East Asian character sets, and do not know how to start, this tome is definitely for you. You will become familiar with historical background on writing systems, input and output methods. You will be aware of the modern encoding methods, font formats, typography, programming and code conversion techniques. Although this all is quite complicated, the author uses very friendly tone, and the information is easy to comprehend after all. The book has a marvelous glossary, index and bibliography sections. Although, for some readers, the lengthy printed character tables from appendixes may be helpful, I would have preferred the paper (and trees) would have been saved by not printing these tables. I think that the same tables in the electronic form would have given more value. Anyway, a programmer now has such tools as iconv library, which resolves most problems with conversion. But if you have only iconv and no knowledge on the East Asian background, you will not have enough confidence (and skills) to develop a proper software application. This book will demystify Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese computing for you and will give you good start!

Chinese edition of this book - 2004-06-06
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Why amazon.com do not provide order for the Chinese version of "CJKV Information Processing"? I think it's more useful for Pan-Chinese customers.

Incredible Resource - 2009-06-24
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I learned an incredible amount from this book - not just about dealing with CJKV issues but about language, scripts, character sets, typography and more. This is an important book for anyone who wants to truly reach a large audience via software, be it on the web or desktop. Even if I'm not specifically targeting CJKV languages, there are a lot of principles here that can help keep software flexible and prepared for broader use down the road.

As someone who spent the majority of my IT career oblivious to anything beyond ascii this book has been a fantastic resource.

Invaluable - 2009-02-18
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I've kept Ken Lunde's CJKV Information Processing with me as I worked on enabling softare in East Asian languages since it was JAPAN.INFO and downloadable from FTP servers in the late 1980s. There's no better place to find everything you need to know about the key technical issues when dealing with Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese. I've referred to it when building speech recognition, Web authoring and now Web browsing softare. The additional content in the Second Edition makes it well worth the upgrade from the first. Thanks Ken!

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