Mobile Internationalization API

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Created: wang_shui (15 Mar 2007)

Last edited: hamishwillee (10 Apr 2013)

This specification defines an optional Java ME API that enables the internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) of MIDP applications. The API provides locale-specific formatting of common data items such as times, dates and currency amounts, and access to application resources that contain user interface text strings and other localizable items in a compact file format. Text strings can be sorted using locale-specific rules in conjunction with the Unicode(tm) Collation Algorithm.

Currently (July 2008) this API is not available on any Nokia devices. If localization is needed, the developer has to implement the localization him/herself from the ground up.

Links

• JCP specification: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=238
• Nokia Resource
• IBM site