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An online tutorial that explains how to use the Java 2 SDK Internationalization API.
IBM's portal site for delivering globalized applications.
The Java internationalization documentation from Sun Microsystems, including a list of supported locales and encodings. For other versions of the Java platform, click the "Internationalization Home Page" link on that page.
The specification of the J2EE internationalization service that is currently being developed through the Java Community Process.
The W3C's Internationalization Core Working Group responsible for investigating the internationalization of Web services, in particular, the dependence of Web services on language, culture, region, and locale-related contexts.
The W3C effort to make World Wide Web technology work with the many writing systems, languages, and cultural conventions of the global community: