Alexander Taylor

Alexander Taylor, better known as just "Alex Taylor" is a prolific Canadian programmer based in Japan, he is an authority on internationalisation and character API's on OS/2.

Articles

• OS/2 and Multilingual Character Sets
  • Part 1 (October 2006)
  • Part 2 (February 2007)
  • Part 3 (July 2008)
• An Introduction to the OS/2 Unicode APIs (presentation), (full package) (2006)

Documentation

• The IBM Logical Volume Manager Programmer's Toolkit (2006)
• Universal Language Support (Unicode Functions) Programming Guide

Known software projects

• Archive Viewer - Tool for viewing and extracting archive files of various types. - Open Source
• ATSHELL - Small program designed to replace PMSHELL.EXE - Open Source
• ConText - Utility for converting text from one encoding (codepage) to another. - Open Source
• DBCSMAP - Character map program for Unicode and double-byte characters. - Open Source
• FreeType/2 - Presentation Manager font driver for TrueType fonts. - Open Source
• FrontenACT - Graphical front-end for the "Enhanced CTorrent" BitTorrent client for OS/2. - Open Source
• IMERJ - input method editor (IME) for Japanese. - Open Source
• InstFont - Simple command-line tool for installing a font under OS/2 Presentation Manager. - Open Source
• MYIP - TCP/IP utility for querying the current system's IP address as seen from the Internet. - Open Source
• TCP/IP Profile Manager - Lets you define and switch between multiple different TCP/IP configurations. - Open Source
• VX-REXX Extras Library - API & class library designed to extend the functionality of Watcom VX-REXX (version 2.1). - Open Source

Republishing Permission

Alex Taylor gave permission to release his articles under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Martin Iturbide requested received the permission on October 28 of 2012 via e-mail.

Links

• http://altsan.org