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Unicode? and IBM WebSphere? On the Development and Deployment of Unicode Based Multilingual Web Applications in IBM WebSphere Application Server Kentaro Noji Globalization Center of Competency Yamato Software Laboratory IBM Japan, Ltd. Debasish Banerjee WebSphere Development IBM Rochester IBM Corporation Abstract. With the advent and popularity of the Internet-based e-commerce products, the need to develop multilingual Unicode-based applications is becoming increasingly important. The IBM WebSphere? application server is very well suited for the development and deployment of multilingual Unicode-based applications, both traditional and Web-based. The globalization mechanism embedded in the Web container of the WebSphere application server allows one to develop internationalized　Servlets and JSPs to serve documents in any language and code set of choice,　including Unicode-based multilingual documents. The Web container provides unique features for code set customization and fine-tuning. A system administrator can map language names to code sets of choice, including Unicode, and the IANA code set names of Asian ideographic languages can be fine-tuned to correspond to the Java? Development Kit (JDK) converters of choice. The present paper describes some important technical considerations behind the　development and deployment of multilingual Unicode-based Java? 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compliant Web　applications. WebSpheres unique globalization mechanism including the code　set customization is also explained with accompanying examples of a Servlet　and a JSP for serving multilingual Unicode-based documents. The ongoing and future internationalization work in WebSphere application server is also highlighted. Introduction The IBM WebSphere? Application Server, Version 4.0, provides a Java? 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.2 [7] compliant environment for the development and deployment of enterprise applications covering a wide-variety of back-ends and front-ends