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The W3C Internationalization (I18n) Activity works with W3C working groups and liaises with other organizations to make it possible to use Web technologies with different languages, scripts, and cultures. From this page you can find articles and other resources about Web internationalization, and information about the groups that make up the Activity.

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10 July 2009

New article: Using Unicode controls for bidi text

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FAQ-based article: If I'm unable to use markup to correctly order bidirectional text, what can I do?

By Richard Ishida, W3C. [search key: qa-bidi-unicode-controls]

Updated tutorial: Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts

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This tutorial was updated to incorporate changes made to the article What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup, but various additional changes were made, including a new approach to handling examples. For a detailed list of changes read the full post.

Translators should consider retranslating the whole tutorial. [search keys: tutorial-bidi-xhtml]

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Categories: Update, WebDesign

Updated article: What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup

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This article was revised substantially.

Translators should consider retranslating the whole article. [search keys: article-inline-bidi-markup]

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22 June 2009

New translation into Bulgarian: Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8

Thanks to Ivan Baldwin the FAQ-based article "Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8" has now been translated into Bulgarian.

[search key: qa-changing-encoding]

Categories: Translation, WebDesign
17 June 2009

Article for wide review: Using Unicode controls for bidi text

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Comments are being sought on this article prior to final release. Please send any comments to www-international@w3.org (subscribe). We expect to publish a final version in one to two weeks. [search keys: qa-bidi-unicode-controls]

Talk slides: New Work on Japanese Layout Requirements

Richard Ishida gave a presentation entitled New Work on Japanese Layout Requirements on 11 June, 2009 at the Fachhochschule Potsdam, Germany. The slides are annotated and in PDF. They build on a previous talk by Richard Ishida, Steve Zilles and Tatsuo Kobayashi at the Unicode Conference, and describe some of the key characteristics of Japanese Layout described in the newly published W3C Note, Requirements for Japanese Text Layout. [search keys: talk-2009 talk-ishida]

Categories: Highlight, Talks, WebDesign

Talk slides: Practical Tips for Designing International Web Pages

Richard Ishida gave a presentation entitled Practical Tips for Designing International Web Pages on 9 June, 2009, at Localization World, Berlin, Germany.

The slides are annotated and in PDF. The presentation looked at a selection of practical issues for people who develop web pages for a multilingual audience. Topics included the dangers of composing sentences in content using scripting, strategies for designing layout so that text expansion during translation will not destroy your efforts, strategies for navigating localized content, and the separation of content and presentation. It explored some of the potential difficulties that can be encountered in these areas and recommended some best practices to help you avoid them. [search keys: talk-2009 talk-ishida]

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Categories: Highlight, Talks, WebDesign

New translations into Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese: Bidi Space Loss

Thanks to Trusted Translations Inc. the FAQ-based article "Bidi Space Loss" has now been translated into Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.

[search key: qa-bidi-space]

Categories: Translation, WebDesign
16 June 2009

New translation: Дву-символни или три-символни кодове за език

Thanks to Ivan Baldwin the FAQ-based article "Two-letter or three-letter language codes" has now been translated into Bulgarian. [search key: qa-lang-2or3]

Categories: Translation, WebDesign

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