List of Tables

1-1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Monolingual Internet Application Design

1-2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Multilingual Internet Application Design

2-1 Locale Representations in Different Programming Environments

3-1 Native Encodings for Commonly Used Locales

5-1 NLS_LANG Values for Commonly Used Locales

6-1 Locale Resources Provided by the GDK

6-2 Mapping Between Common ISO Locales and IANA Character Sets

6-3 Locale Parameters Used in the GDK Framework

7-1 Java Programs that Contain Internationalization Features for the World-of-Books Application

7-2 Description of the customers Table

7-3 Description of the books Table

7-4 Description of the docs Table

7-5 World-of-Books Directory Structure

7-6 Examples of Locale-Sensitive Methods of the Localizer Bean

A-1 Translated Languages and Abbreviations