Episode 72: Internationalization

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Intro

December Prize Give-a-way

News/Links

• Sqlite3 tutorial
• http://tech.marksblogg.com/sqlite3-tutorial-and-guide.html
• Mask R-CNN in tensorflow
• https://github.com/matterport/Mask_RCNN
• Do you have learners syndrome?
• https://hackernoon.com/do-you-have-the-learners-syndrome-169c8158ec16
• Introducing Unity3D ML Agents
• https://blogs.unity3d.com/2017/09/19/introducing-unity-machine-learning-agents/

Book of the Show

• Jason: 80 Days (Android & iOS)
• Patrick: Forging Hephaestus
• http://amzn.to/2jrKpZY

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Firefox Developer Edition
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
• Patrick: The Witness (iOS and Android)

Internationalization (i18n)

• Localization (l10n) versus Internationalization (i18n)
• Things to think about
• Right-to-left & Bottom-to-top
• Comma vs period number separators
• Currency Symbols
• Dates M/D/Y versus D/M/Y
• Character Sets
• ASCII
• Unicode
• UTF-8 versus 16 & 32
• Tools
• Gettext
• ICU