Going Global: Publishing in Asia with Dynatext and Dynaweb

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Going Global Publishing in Asia with Dynatext
and Dynaweb
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• Jason Olson
• Basis Technology Corporation

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Motivation Being Multilingual
Motivation

• Target Population
• Market Importance

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Target Population
Motivation

• 90 Million people speak Korean as their first
  language
• 1.5 Billion people speak Chinese as their first
  language

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Why are these Markets Important?
Motivation

• Significant Growth
• Your multinational customers are in these markets
• Your competition is in these markets

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Challenges of Asian Languages
Challenges

• Unfamiliar characters, and a lot of them
• Encoding issues - Multiple encoding schemes
• SGML issues
• Testing
• Dynatext and Dynaweb

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What are these characters?
Challenges Characters

• Fear of the unknown (its all Greek to me)

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What is an Encoding?
Challenges Encoding

• A mapping between the characters of a script and
  a sequence of numbers.
• ASCII EBCDIC Basic Latin, numerals, and
  symbols
• ISO 8859-1 ( Latin-1) Extended Latin (Western
  Europe)
• ISO 8859-2 ( Latin-2) Extended Latin (Eastern
  Europe)
• ISO 8859-5 Latin, Cyrillic
• ISO 8859-6 Latin, Arabic
• ISO 8859-7 Latin, Greek
• JIS X 0208-1990 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic,
  Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji
• KSC 5601-1987 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hiragana,
  Katakana, Hangul, Hanja
• GB 2312-80 (CP 936) Latin, Greek, Cyrillic,
  Hiragana, Katakana, Hanzi

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Multiple Encoding Schemes
Challenges Encoding

• Korean
• KSC5601
• Chinese
• GB2312
• BIG5
• CP950
• Japanese
• Shift-JIS
• JIS
• ISO-2022JP

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SBCS vs. DBCS vs. MBCS
Challenges Encoding

• Single Byte per Character
• ASCII, ISO8859-1-10
• Two (Double) Bytes per Character
• Shift-JIS, EUC-KR, GB2312, Big5
• Multiple Bytes per Character
• EUC-JP, ISO-2022, UTF-8
• Lead-byte Trail-byte processing

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Testing
Challenges Testing

• Is it right?

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SGML Issues
Challenges SGML

• Getting your SGML translated
• Trail-byte gotchas
• Style Sheet Restrictions

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Trail-byte Gotchas
Challenges SGML
Overlap between ASCII and Trail Byte Range
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Style Sheet Restrictions
Challenges SGML

• Unrecognized Characters / Symbols
• Encoding notation

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The Solution
Solution

• Technical Side
• PLS Architecture
• Rosette
• KCCPLS
• Application Side
• Getting Translated Docs
• Using the PLS Correctly
• Testing

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PLS Architecture
Solution Technical Side

• INSO and Basis Tech jointly designed the PLS
  architecture
• PLM - Does Language Specific Processing
• word-breaking
• date formats
• printing
• ECM - Does Encoding Conversions (Unicode / Legacy)

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Rosette Library for Unicode Handling
Solution Technical Side

• Provides Encoding Conversions
• Unicode / Legacy Encodings
• Provides Character Classifications and Transforms
• Cross Platform
• WinNT, Win95, Macintosh, Unix, Mainframe

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Marriage of PLS and Rosette
Solution Technical Side

• The creation of the KCCPLS
• Internals are completely Unicode
• ECM directly uses Rosette encoding conversions
• PLM is built upon Rosette character
  classification

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The Result The KCC PLS
Solution Technical Side

• The KCCPLS is a simple addition to your extant
  Dynaweb or Dynatext installation
• You can correctly process and display Korean,
  Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

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What does it mean?
Solution Technical Side
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Future PLS
Solution Technical Side

• On the fly conversions between TC and SC
• Source data in Unicode - Multilingual Documents

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Getting Translated Docs
Solution Application Side

• Identify materials to be translated
• Select a reputable Localization vendor with a
  good track record
• Prepare an English Glossary
• Translate glossary into target language
• Translation and editing
• Charlotte

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Using the PLS with Dynaweb
Solution Application Side

• Run the Installer
• InstallShield on Windows
• install script on Unix
• Make sure your pls.map has a locale, character
  set and language definition that matches your
  books

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Using the PLS with Dynaweb
Solution Application Side

• the PLS.MAP

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Using the PLS with Dynaweb
Solution Application Side

• Edit setlocale.dwc

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Using the PLS with Dynaweb
Solution Application Side

• Setup of the Browser
• Proper fonts on system
• Set encoding correctly

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Using the PLS with Dynatext
Solution Application Side

• Run the Installer
• Check pls.map
• Change font declarations in Stylesheets
• Have proper language support
• Native language version of Windows
• English Windows with Language Packs
• Unix with Locales

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Testing
Solution Application Side
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References
References

• CJKV Information Processing
• Ken Lunde OReilly Press ISBN 1-56592-224-7
• Developing International Software
• Nadine Kano Microsoft Press ISBN 1-55615-840-8
• The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0
• The Unicode Consortium ISBN 0-201-48345-9
• unicode.basistech.com

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Get more information

• http//inso.basistech.com

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Other Products from Basis Technology

• Japanese Morphological Analyzer
• Chinese Morphological Analyzer
• Chinese Script Converter