Internationalization of Protocols and Formats
- Textual content
- Document content, human-to-human, machine only used for
transmission
- Need for internationalization is undisputed
- Plain text => Marked-up text
- Identifiers
- Open ended set, created/used by machine and human
- Examples: domain names, URIs, XML element/attribute names
- Recently increased recognition of need for internationalization
- Protocol syntax
- Fixed set, defined by specification
- Examples: HTTP 'GET', email 'Subject:'
- Internationalization at user interface level
