Internationalizing JavaScript Applications

October 21, 2013

On October 21, 2013, I gave a presentation on “Internationalizing JavaScript Applications” at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference. Here are some materials related to the presentation:

• Presentation slides Internationalizing JavaScript Applications
• Unicode support in ECMAScript
  • ECMAScript Language Specification edition 6 draft
  • Supplementary Characters for ECMAScript original proposal
  • Unicode Normalization original proposal
• ECMAScript Internationalization API:
  • Specification
  • Background and guide to the specification
• Libraries and platforms mentioned in the presentation:
  • CSet
  • XRegExp
  • unorm
  • Richard Ishida’s normalization code
  • punycode
  • Globalize.js
  • Dojo internationalization
  • Closure NumberFormat, DateTimeFormat, MessageFormat
  • Windows 8 NumberFormatting, DateTimeFormatting
  • iLib
  • Moment.js
  • YUI date formatting
  • messageformat.js
  • L20n

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.

History

This presentation is an updated and expanded version of an earlier one given in August 2012.