Internationalization tests

This page groups together pages being developed by the Internationalization Core Working Group to assess internationalization support of user agents. These tests are still under development and should not be taken as final.

Note that these tests do not only test conformance with W3C standards. In some cases the tests also allow for exploration of the behavior of user agents in ways not described by the standards.

See also the notes on intended users and conventions.

Tests

• Language dependent styling  (Results available)
• Automatic font assignment for CJK text   (Results available)
• Language declarations   (Results available)
• Block level bidi markup
• RTL content and browser chrome
• Inline bidi markup   (Results available)
• Unicode-bidi
• Text-transform
• List style type
• Resource identifiers
• IDN display   (Results available)
• UTF-8 signature   (Results available)
• UTF-8 auto-detection   (Results available)
• Ruby markup
• Escapes
• Hreflang content generation   (Results available)
• Link element   (Results available)
• White space   (Results available)
• Line breaking   (Results available)

Intended users

These tests have been developed bearing in mind the need for content developers to learn about features, and know whether and how those features are supported on a particular user agent. Therefore a good deal of explanatory information is included with the tests.

Care has also been taken to enable fairly easy adaptation of the tests by QA Engineers as part of another test suite.

The tests and results have also proved useful to user agent developers for planning improvements to their products.

Conventions used

The actual test is usually enclosed by an orange box.

Instructions about what to do or look for are typically in this color outside the box, although occasionally the text of the test itself provides the instructions (in which case the color is likely to be different). Green text usually indicates a successful test. Red, a failure.

Sometimes graphics are used to show what to expect. To help identify these as images, the top left and right corners are drawn.

Explanatory text is gray.