Presentations of W3C Team, Office Staff, and Working Group Participants

Query constraints:

• W3C Activity: Internationalization
• Possible presentation dates: past few months and upcoming

June 2009

30 June

Felix Sasaki gives a talk on behalf of the Germany and Austria Office entitled "Wie implementiert man einen Standard? Eine Anleitung für Praktiker (How to implement a standard? A manual for practitioners)" organized by the Tutorial organized by the Berlin University of the Arts, on Tuesday, 30 June 2009, in Berlin, Germany.

October 2009

14 October

Richard Ishida gives a tutorial entitled "An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode" (see abstract) and gives a tutorial entitled "Creating HTML Pages with Right-to-Left Scripts" (see abstract) at the "Internationalization & Unicode Conference" , on Wednesday, 14 October 2009, in San Jose, USA.

Abstract for “ An Introduction to Writing Systems &…”:

The tutorial will provide you with a good understanding of the many unique characteristics of non-Latin writing systems, and illustrate the problems involved in implementing such scripts in products. It does not provide detailed coding advice, but does provide the essential background information you need to understand the fundamental issues related to Unicode deployment, across a wide range of scripts. It has also proved to be an excellent orientation for newcomers to the conference, providing the background needed to assist understanding of the other talks! The tutorial goes beyond encoding issues to discuss characteristics related to input of ideographs, combining characters, context-dependent shape variation, text direction, vowel signs, ligatures, punctuation, wrapping and editing, font issues, sorting and indexing, keyboards, and more. The concepts are introduced through the use of examples from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi/Tamil, Russian a nd Greek. While the tutorial is perfectly accessible to beginners, it has also attracted very good reviews from people at an intermediate and advanced level, due to the breadth of scripts discussed. No prior knowledge is needed.

Abstract for “ Creating HTML Pages with Right-to-Left…”:

This short tutorial explains how to go about creating XHTML and HTML pages containing text written in the Arabic or Hebrew scripts. The tutorial examines how best to achieve the correct effect for these bi-directional scripts using appropriate markup, CSS properties and Unicode code points or entities. It covers the basics, and goes beyond to provide recommended techniques for some of the tricky situations that even native speakers can struggle with. The tutorial assumes a basic familiarity with the bi-directional characteristics of Arabic and Hebrew, as well as a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.

14, 15 October

Addison Phillips gives a tutorial entitled "Internationalization: An Introduction" (see abstract) on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 and gives a talk entitled "BCP47: Language and Locale Identification" (see abstract) on Thursday, 15 October 2009 at the "Internationalization and Unicode Conference" , San Jose, CA, USA.

Abstract for “Internationalization: An Introduction”:

What is internationalization? What do developers, product managers, or quality engineers need to know about it? How does a software development organization incorporate internationalization into the design, implementation, and delivery of an application?

This tutorial track provides an introduction to the topics of internationalization, localization and globalization. Attendees will understand the overall concepts and approach necessary to analyze a product for internationalization issues, develop a design or approach, and deliver a global-ready solution. The focus is on architectural approaches and general concepts, but will include specific examples and exercises.

Abstract for “BCP47: Language and Locale Identification”:

In 2006, the IETF issued an updated version of BCP 47 "Tags for Identifying Languages", which updated the way languages are identified in most computer programs and protocols. The latest version of BCP 47 (2009) incorporates over 7,000 new languages and many other improvements. This presentation, from the authors of the updated and previous RFCs, covers:

• the format of language tags and the language subtag registry
• the matching algorithms for comparing language tags to user preferences
• plus distance-based algorithms
• the new features in BCP 47 and their impact on developers

and how BCP 47 is being used in:

• Unicode locales (CLDR)
• prominent open-source libraries such as ICU
• companies such as Google and Amazon

March 2010

13 March

Mohamed ZERGAOUI runs a booth at the "XML Prague 2010" between Saturday, 13 March, and Sunday, 14 March 2010, in Prague, Czech Republic. (see abstract)

Abstract:

XML Prague is a conference on XML for developers, markup geeks, information managers, and students