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Summary: WAITING FOR THE NEW VERSION, LOVE IT!!
Review: Here at Honda we purchased 50 copies of this absolutely informative book. While it's out of print now, we bought several more copies from online We have made it required reading for a number of corporate offices, both in Japan and Southern California.If company is on the web, and you're offering products and services to a worldwide market, this book is required reading! Among the first books ever to address the web and becoming truly international.
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Summary: A book truly for our Web times!
Review: I bought this book for a recent project for creating a multilingual website. This book really has a wealth of information about creating a multilingual/international website. A lot of the initial information concerned WHY you should have an international website, which I could have done without, but perhaps this would be helpful to some. Bishop gets into lots of areas of creating the site, including character encoding, priming your site for international search engines, using PDF, Real Audio, translation services, etc. There's almost too much to digest at one time. A whole chapter is devoted to resources on the internet, but Bishop provides links to appropriates sites throughout the book. My only complaint is that he didn't discuss how much Unicode has superceded some of the other character encoding schemes. By including so much information on other schemes, he seems to be indicating that Unicode is still not used by many, but it's a little unclear. However, this may not be a top issue for most, it just happened to be a question I'm coming up against in my project.
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Summary: Not as complete as I expected
Review: I haven't been impressed at all by this book. We are building a web site that will eventually use 11 languages so we have kind of a high interest and knowledge on the subject ;-). We found that the book was rather imcomplete it doesn't talk about how codesets are handled in forms. It also contained some "errors" such as suggesting the use of a flag to represent the various language (this is definitelly not politically correct!). But I guess for $20 you still get a few good tips.
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Summary: Where can I find this wonderful book?
Review: I heard about this book last week and I wanted 20 copies for my IT department at Zacky Farms. A friend lent me his copy and I was awakened by this insightful and very helpful "how-to" book. If anyone is serious about Web e-commerce then they got to get this book! I heard a revision is upcoming, is this true? Erica Hui, Senior CPA for International Sales
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