Notes for HTML i18n Guidelines Devt

These are very rough notes as a first step towards developing a set of techniques for use of HTML.

Each rule attempts to broadly list likely audiences for that rule. Current categories include (authoring) tools developers, web masters, authors, user agent developers. Note that 'author' is used in the sense described by the HTML 4.01 spec, ie as a person or program that writes or generates HTML documents.

- Choosing character encodings and representing characters

- Choosing an encoding

- Transmitting encoded text

- Specifying the character encoding

- Detecting document encodings

- Referring to specific characters

- Dealing with undisplayable characters