Designing for International Users:
Practical Tips
Author:

Richard Ishida

W3C Internationalization Activity Lead

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Introduction 1 2

Linguistic issues 3

Linguistic differences 4 5 6 7 8 9

Composite messages 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Managing text expansion 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

Separating content & presentation 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43

Cultural issues 44

Formatting & reading data 45 46 47 48 49 50

Symbolism & examples 51 52 53 54 55

Color 56 57 58 59 60

Differing approaches 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68

International text 69 70 71 72 73 74

What this means to me 75 76 77 78 79 80 81