Basis Technology Announces Rosette 3.0; Unicode 3.0 Support Among New Features.Business/Technology Editors Software Development East WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 31, 2000 Basis Technology (www.basistech.com), the world's leading provider of globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation services and technology, today announced Rosette Rosette D’Albert’s pliable, versatile, talented, acknowledged bedmate. [Fr. Lit.: Mademoiselle de Maupin. Magill I, 542–543] See : Courtesanship (language) Rosette - A concurrent object-oriented language from MCC. 3.0 at Software Development East (Booth #101). Rosette now supports Unicode 3.0, the latest version of the rapidly emerging standard for global text processing. Rosette 3.0 enables software developers to quickly add Unicode 3.0 compliance to their products. Its rich C++ classes and wide-character C runtime library A collection of executable software functions in the machine language of the target computer. A runtime library can be linked into an application at compile time with links already resolved from the programmer's code to the functions when the application is loaded. support flexible conversions between Unicode 3.0 and all widely used national text encodings. "This major upgrade of our flagship Rosette technology is built like a brick house," said Ted Peck, director of product management at Basis Technology. "Rosette 3.0 provides our customers the foundation to bring their products to the world with all the features and performance that the new global marketplace demands." Rosette's most significant new features include: --Support for additional character mappings, including full support for the new Euro character. --Improved support for MIME recognition, making Rosette optimally suited for web development. --Unicode 3.0 compliant sorting/collation for locale-specific sort orders. --New Unicode 3.0 character properties to support correct processing of Asian and Middle Eastern text. --Unicode 3.0 compliant character decomposition decomposition /de·com·po·si·tion/ (de-kom?pah-zish´un) the separation of compound bodies into their constituent principles. de·com·po·si·tion n. 1. for unambiguous text searches. --A 15 percent speed improvement in transcoding between different character sets. Rosette 3.0 also features improved portability for companies moving to new computing platforms. Rosette is the only tool of its kind that is portable across all major hardware and operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. platforms. Rosette is available with royalty-free, unlimited distribution licenses for either binary or full-source code versions. For more information please visit rosette.basistech.com or email rosette@basistech.com. About Basis Technology Basis Technology is the leading provider of internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation technology and services for Internet companies and global enterprises. The company specializes in software re-engineering services for Unicode compliance, and offers a wide range of cross-platform software components that deliver off-the-shelf solutions to problems commonly encountered in internationalization projects. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Rosette, is the leading cross-platform library for Unicode, the rapidly emerging international standard for software that handles multiple languages. Top-tier Web software publishers, search engines and portals have adopted Rosette as the core of their globalization strategy. Basis Technology is the only Web internationalization company that is also a full member of the Unicode Consortium The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organization that coordinates Unicode's development, has the ambitious goal of eventually replacing existing character encoding schemes with Unicode and its standard Unicode Transformation Format (UTF) schemes, as many of the existing schemes . Basis Technology's multilingual professionals are veterans of hundreds of software and Web internationalization projects. The company works closely with its customers to maximize the opportunities offered by rapidly expanding global markets. Company headquarters are located in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. , with a branch office in Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit www.basistech.com or call 617-386-2000. |
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