There is a new class Locale which can be used in Java code so that one Java program, a "global program", can be written which uses different character sets, time, date and currency formatting depending on where it is run.
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Implements UniCODE 2.0 for character sets
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Internationalization makes small changes in various classes such as String, Properties, Exceptions, System and Runtime.
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At JavaOne conference, Gosling remarks that majority of bytes of new stuff in JDK 1.1 is for new conversion tables for internationalization. Much of this was incorporated from IBM and Taligent.
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