TR-SLT-0013 :June 2002

Nicolas Auclerc, Yves Lepage

Multilingual Application using Java: Solution and Example

Abstract:This report describes solutions to create multilingual applications using Java. These solutions aims at Natural Language Processing, and more precisely for the data preparation. A Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is needed to run any Java program. A JVM is embedded in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) which defines the basic environment of the JVM (default locale, default fonts, default security policy, etc ...). A default JRE installation does not contain enough settings and resources to handle different languages to be input or displayed. Therefore, this report will describe how to setup a chosen JRE to run correctly internationalized and localized multilingual applications.