Markup for Internationalization: Examples
- Language tagging (
xml:lang on any markup, e.g. on
<span>)
- Bidirectionality (mixture of right-to-left and left-to-right writing
directions for Arabic, Hebrew,...;
html:dir attribute)
- Ruby (short annotations, to indicate pronunciation of ideograms, XHTML
1.1
<ruby>)
- Missing characters and glyphs (in particular for East Asia)
- Information for translators
