--- Forwarded Message from Christopher Ott <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 13:41:27 -0500
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>From: Christopher Ott <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Multilingual computing handbook

About a year and a half ago, I sent around this message on LLTI:

>Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 13:52:17 -0500
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: Christopher Ott <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Books with overview of multilingual computing?
>
>Does anyone know of any books, chapters of books or Web sites that give a
>good overview of multilingual issues for Macs and PCs?  Things like fonts &
>keyboards, email and the Internet, spell-checking, hyphenation,
>alphabetization, etc.?  Sort of a one-stop guide for all the computer
>problems that crop up for multilingual users?

Well, it turned out that there wasn't any book like this, so I decided to write one.  And I'm writing today to announce that it's available from John Wiley & Sons.

It's called "Global Solutions for Multilingual Applications," and if anyone is interested, it's got a lot of information that's relevant to academic multilingual computing environments.  I made sure of that, because that was my main multilingual experience.  I worked at the Brown University Center for Language Studies for three years, and I've also been a participant in LLTI off and on over the years and have learned a lot from the discussions that have taken place here.

The book covers Macs and PCs, including topics like the basics of setting up language support, working with a variety of applications (including Web browsers and email apps), arranging for Internet access while traveling abroad, and developing multilingual applications and web sites.  Not every language is covered, but there's information about the major East Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, and East and West European languages, plus a few others. The main operating systems covered are Windows 98 and Mac OS 8.5 (most of which still applies to OS 9).

The book has a free companion web site at http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/ott/ with links to all the online resources mentioned in the book.  There's also more information and a sample chapter from the book about setting up basic multilingual support available online through Amazon.com in the "Read an Excerpt" section for the book's listing.

And of course if anyone has any questions about it, please just feel free to contact me!

Thanks for the opportunity to make this plug.

Chris Ott
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