Survey on International Text Processing

The implementation of multilingual text I/O is essential for computers to interact with all sorts of users in the world.One of the most important functionalities for a computer is,how and to which extent its operating system supports languages with multi-scripts.Owing to considerable differences amongst scripts,multilingual text processing in an a global operating system is very complicated.In this paper,firstly,the scope and the content of multilingual text processing are defined,including text input,store,processing and interactions in an internationalized manner.Secondly,models for text processing are outlined;several technical solutions are discussed;the pros and cons are listed.Thirdly,technical features of text processing implemented by current operating systems are analyzed.Finally,some challenges in the realm of internationalized text processing are presented.