UnicodeIUC15
Abstract

Target Audience: Manager, Software Engineer, Systems Analyst

Level of Session: Intermediate

Netscape's Javascript scripting language and Microsoft's JScript scripting language are, together, arguably the most popular programming language in the Internet world today. ECMAScript is an international standard based on Javascript and JScript and is intended as a base standard for Web scripting languages, and possibly scripting languages in general.

The original version of ECMAScript used Unicode for character storage, but wasn't otherwise designed with internationalization in mind. Future versions of the standard (and of Javascript and JScript) will include more and more internationalization support.

This talk will trace the history of the ECMAScript internationalization effort, providing both a case study of how an existing programming language was retrofitted to support internationalization and a preview of the internationalization features that will appear in upcoming ECMAScript implementations.
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