Lotus Component for Unicode: Adapting and Customizing ICU for Lotus Notes/Domino Rnext
| Intended Audience: |
Managers, Software Engineers, Systems Analysts |
| Session Level: |
Intermediate, Advanced |
The Unicode support is a crucial feature for Lotus Notes/Domino product.
Without it, Notes/Domino product won't be able to support all different international
languages at same time. In Notes/Domino 6.0, we have re-written its Unicode support
component (Lotus Component for Unicode) based on IBM open source library ICU (International
Component for Unicode). This paper discusses our experiences in adapting and customizing ICU for
Notes/Domino 6.0. These include evolution history of Unicode support in Lotus software;
why we adopt the open source component of ICU; How we managed the risks of integration; How
we addressed the issues of high level API back compatible; etc.
The session also covers the tips and techniques on customizing ICU word
breaker, implementing ICU collation tailoring, addressing security issues of
applying normalization, adapting new memory management, etc.
The intended audiences are managers, developers, system analysts who are
interested in adopting ICU (Open source) in their International products
development of Unicode support.
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