This will be your guide to language technology, a discipline that has become unavoidable in today's globalized multilingual world. The book will explain how computers deal with various languages and will give you the knowledge you need to use language technology responsibly. Areas dealt with will include: text input and formatting in various languages, spelling and grammar checkers, online dictionaries and other language reference works, machine translation, multilingual websites, software localization. This book will be a computer manual and a multicultural awareness builder at the same time. Intended for general readers rather than IT professionals, this will be required reading for everybody who uses more than one language on their computers.
