International Components for Unicode

International Components for Unicode

ICU Developer's Workshop Program

 

Pre-requisite: Understanding of C/C++ programming languages. Your own laptop with one of the listed reference development environment installed. Please see the list at the bottom of this URL http://icu-project.org/userguide/ICUDesign.html. Successfully built the ICU 1.6 release with all the tests (intltest and cintltst) running on your laptop. Fully understand at least two of the ICU samples in $Work/icu/source/samples directory, e.g. udate and ucal. Downloaded, compiled and ran the workshop exercise modules from http://icu-project.org/docs/workshop_2000/material/ws12092000. Read the top-level sections of the ICU user's guide at http://icu-project.org/userguide/. (Reading the full user's guide is recommended.) Your evaluation of our workshop (Use Netscape Navigator if it looks truncated in your browser)

Day 1: Monday, September 11

Registration

9:00am - 9:15am

Welcome and Introduction

9:15am - 9:30am

Helena Shih Chapman

ICU/Java Design and Architecture

9:30 am - 11:00 am

Mark Davis

Topics: Basic Unicode introduction followed by quick summary of ICU features. What are the basic architectures common to ICU and Java i18n support? How are the system resources localized? What is ICU's threading model? How does one extend the implementation to include his/her own i18n support? What is ICU's error-handling model? Relation between C and C++ APIs.

Build/Installation Issues and Beyond

11:15 am - 12:30 pm

Yves Arrouye and Steven Loomis

Topics: What are the options to configure an ICU build? What resource files are necessary to integrate ICU into one's product? What problems one may run into while porting ICU to a new platform? How to migrate a product to use ICU? How does one add new support to ICU, converter, locale etc? How does one use the data-packaging tool to prepare the application data?

12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch Break

ICU Low-level Utilities and Resource Management

UData Interface Exercise Module

ResourceBundle Exercise Module

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Vladimir Weinstein

Topics: What is the locale model in ICU? What is the string related interface in ICU and how does one use it? A quick summary of other low-level utility interface that provide overall support to ICU components. Quick summary of ResourceBundle support; what kind of data can be stored and retrieved natively. What's the system locale format? What's the future direction of this support. What else can one use ResourceBundle for?

Character set conversion interface

3:00pm-4:45pm

Markus_Scherer

Converter Exercise Module

SCSU Exercise Module

Topics: Quick status summary of the current converter support. When does one use one API vs. the other? What are the tradeoffs? How does the converter handle the error condition? What is a converter callback function and how does one customize it? What is the Unicode compression scheme?