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:

• Presentation slides Internationalizing JavaScript Applications
• ECMAScript Internationalization API:
  • Specification drafts
  • Background and guide to the specification
• Proposal for Supplementary Characters for ECMAScript
• Libraries and platforms mentioned in the presentation:
  • Globalize.js
  • Dojo internationalization
  • Closure NumberFormat, DateTimeFormat, MessageFormat
  • Windows 8-style UI NumberFormatting, DateTimeFormatting
  • iLib
  • YUI date formatting
  • messageformat.js
  • CSet
  • XRegExp
  • unorm
  • Richard Ishida’s normalization code
  • punycode

Mentioning a library does not mean that I’ve tested it and found it bug free, nor that there aren’t better libraries available that I don’t mention. One thing that really struck me during my limited research was how many overlapping libraries there are especially for number and date-time formatting.