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Tests on this page seek to determine whether a user agent can handle an International Resource Identifier (IRI) in a link or address bar. This page is encoded in Shift-JIS, but the link points to a resource whose filename is encoded in UTF-8. [search key: sec-iri-3]
Most of the Internationalization tests at http://www.w3.org/International/tests/ have been improved in the light of lessons learned over recent months. Changes include the addition of explanatory information at the beginning of each test page that describes what is being tested and provides useful notes. Presentation has been standardized and improved. There have also been a small number of changes made to existing test pages, and a small number of new tests have been added. Finally, links to the results pages have been added to the test overview page.
These tests explore how white space is handled in relation to ideographic text, based on assumptions in CSS 2.1. Please send any comments before I add them formally to the site.
See also the preliminary results and conclusions. [search key: sec-whitespace]
This is one of a set of pages that examine how inline bidirectional text is handled by a user agent.
Tests on this page seek to determine whether directionality set in the document is carried through to window title and tooltip display. The tester should check two things: whether the letters in a single word run in the right direction (this checks the application of the bidirectional algorithm, using character directional semantics); and whether the words are in the appropriate order (this checks the application of directional context set by the dir attribute). [search key: sec-inline-bidi]
See also the preliminary results and conclusions.
This test seeks to establish whether and how a user agent supports the use of the link element to allow the user to navigate to versions of the current document written in alternative languages.
See also the preliminary results and conclusions. [search key: sec-link]
These two tests examine the recognition of escapes in XHTML. [search key: sec-escapes]
This test seeks to establish whether a user agent supports use of the hreflang attribute plus CSS to display information about the language of a link target. It does not test whether the hreflang value is used when viewing the target document.
See also the preliminary results and conclusions. [search key: sec-hreflang-style]
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