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CJKV Information Processing
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Author: Ken Lunde
List Price: $69.95
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ISBN: 1565922247
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (December, 1998)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 73,943
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Fantastic but too big
I agree with all the postive comments posted here. Working in Japan, this book has saved me repeatedly. But I have a serious concern about the size, of 1000 pages there are 400 pages of tables, huge lists of Chinese characters which are of very little value and makes the book difficult to use.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The bible for coding Asian languages
Lunde's book is essential to anyone in the software localization or internationalization business. It simply covers everything. Want to know how to do regular expressions in Japanese? Page 445. The actual definition of "Mincho" (as in the Mincho font)? Check the Glossary. Postscript clones that handle Chinese? page 391.The book is intended primarily for software engineers, but the subject matter is treated so comprehensively that it is an essential desk reference for translators, information developers, project managers, production managers, and marketing executives. Just get it, Ok?
Rating: 2 out of 5
Code page tables poorly organized
I recognize that this book is really definitive on this topic. So I cannot help but assume that if I had the patience to figure out how to use it properly it would be worthwhile. BUT...Being somebody already reasonably familiar with using eastern languages on a computer, I have no desire to read the text in the book from the beginning. The majority of the book is code-page tables, which is an important reference. (They are actually of limited utility, since they are only indexed one way: code to character, with no reverse indexing. Understandable, since that would be very difficult, but still limiting.) But worst of all, the code page tables are laid out in a way that I do not understand. And I could not find an explanation of how these tables corresponded to byte-values in a data stream.
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