What support does J2ME provide for internationalization (I18N)?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=271890 Created: Dec 7, 2000 Modified: 2000-12-07 17:05:25.429 Author: Bill Day (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=135825) Question originally posed by Willie Vu (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=1935 The J2ME CLDC specification describes which internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) features are required of CLDC based devices, which features are left to profiles (such as the Mobile Information Device Profile, or MIDP), and which are up to manufacturers/OEMs. For J2ME CLDC apps (and so for MIDP “MIDlets” too, since MIDP requires CLDC), you are guaranteed that necessary Unicode support is built into the VM, that you have the ISOLatin1 encoding available, and that you can find out about any other available encodings using System.getProperty method calls. Beyond that, you must do the work in your app yourself, i.e., if you want to localize to say Japanese, you need to check if there is a Japanese encoding availabl
