The ECMAScript Internationalization API

December 18, 2012

The ECMAScript Internationalization API provides collation (string comparison), number formatting, and date and time formatting for JavaScript applications, and lets applications choose the language and tailor the functionality to their needs. This article provides background and a guide to the specification.   

Portugal

November 4-14, 2012

Photos from Porto, Lisbon, and Sintra.   

Internationalizing JavaScript Applications

August 6, 2012

On August 6, 2012, I gave a presentation on “Internationalizing JavaScript Applications” at a meeting of the SF Globalization group. Here are some materials related to the presentation.   

Supplementary Characters for ECMAScript

May 8, 2012

ECMAScript, the standard underlying JavaScript, currently does not provide full support for Unicode supplementary characters. This article proposes a set of ECMAScript specification changes that enable supplementary characters while maintaining compatibility.