Archives for: 2008

Thanks to Алексей Давыдов (Alexey Davydoff) the FAQ-based article "Multilingual Forms" has now been translated into Russian (language negotiated). [search key: qa-forms-utf-8]

Thanks to Алексей Давыдов (Alexey Davydoff) the FAQ-based article "Sorting select options" has now been translated into Russian (language negotiated). [search key: qa-select-sorting]

Thanks to K. Wiśniewski the Getting Started article "Language on the Web" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: gs-language]

Thanks to K. Wiśniewski the Getting Started article "Internationalization Quick Tips for the Web" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: article-quicktips]

Thanks to M. Kadubiec the FAQ-based article "Character encodings for beginners" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: qa-what-is-encoding]

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "CSS character encoding declarations" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-css-charset]

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-changing-encoding]

Thanks to Jens Meiert the FAQ-based article "HTML, XHTML, XML and Control Codes" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-controls]

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "Document character set" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-doc-charset]

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "Setting charset information in .htaccess" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-htaccess-charset]

Richard Ishida gave a presentation entitled "Global Design: Characters, Language and More" at the @media 2008 Conference, London, UK, on 30 May, 2008. [search keys: talk-2008 talk-ishida ]

Richard Ishida gave a presentation entitled Designing International Web Pages: Some Practical Tips at the Open Road Conference, Melbourne, Australia, on 15 May, 2008, and at Web Standards Group (WSG) meetings in Melbourne and Sydney on 15th and 16th May. [search keys: talk-2008 talk-ishida ]

Richard Ishida and Felix Sasaki gave a tutorial entitled Producing XML that Works Internationally at the WWW2008 Conference, Beijing, China, on 21 April, 2008. [search keys: talk-2008 talk-ishida talk-sasaki]

A paragraph about Firefox support for IRIs was updated. For a detailed list of changes read the full post.

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Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "Character encodings for beginners" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-what-is-encoding]

The Internationalization Core Working Group has published a Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N). This document describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide internationalized and localized operations using locale and international preferences. These mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of development models for international usage.

Editors: Addison Phillips, Mary Trumble (until September 2005), Felix Sasaki [search keys: tr-ws-i18n]

Participants from four W3C Groups CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL Working Groups as part of the Japanese Layout Task Force published Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. Japanese version is also available.

Editors: Toshi Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Anan. [search keys: tr-jlreq]

Article: This article provides guidelines for the migration of software and data to Unicode. It covers planning the migration, and design and implementation of Unicode-enabled software. A basic understanding of Unicode and the principles of character encoding is assumed.

By Norbert Lindenberg & Addison Phillips, Yahoo. [search key: article-unicode-migration]

Thanks to Alan Henrique Pardo de Carvalho the FAQ-based article "Character encodings for beginners" has now been translated into Brazilian Portuguese (language negotiated). [search key: qa-what-is-encoding]

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "When to use language negotiation" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-when-lang-neg]

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "Using character entities and NCRs" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-escapes]

These tests check whether and how a user agent displays ruby markup in XHTML 1.0 that is served as text/html (without CSS help).

Tests were conducted on later versions of Firefox, Opera and Safari browsers, and the Firefox browser with a later version of the ruby add-on by Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven. The latter now passes all tests for simple and complex ruby as expected. There was no change for the three former browser setups. [search key: results-ruby-markup-2]

The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Interest Group, chaired by Yves Savourel (ENLASO Corporation), was launched today.

The ITS IG is a forum to foster a community of users of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS), and aims to promote its adoption, and gather information on its further development. ITS defines data categories that may be used with schemas to support the internationalization and localization of XML-based documents.

Participation in the new ITS IG is open to W3C Members and the public.

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: article-unicode-migration]

Thanks to Nataly Panchenko (Наталія Панченко) the FAQ-based article "Document character set" has now been translated into Ukrainian (language negotiated). [search key: qa-doc-charset]

Thanks to Nataly Panchenko the article "Character encodings" has now been translated into Ukrainian (language negotiated). This is our first Ukrainian translation. [search key: article-O-charset]

Thanks to Natalia Fabisz and Agata Bogacka the FAQ-based article "Setting charset information in .htaccess" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: qa-htaccess-charset]

Thanks to Andrew Osobka and Kamil Wiśniewski the article "What you need to know about the bidi algorithm and inline markup" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: article-inline-bidi-markup]

The i18n Core Working Group is co-ordinating the Japanese Layout Taskforce (JLTF), a joint task force between the CSS, i18n Core, SVG and XSL groups. The goal of the JLTF task force is the creation of a document about requirements for Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG or XSL-FO. Samples of KIHONHANMEN (one of the basic units of Japanese layout) have recently been made publicly available.

The task force is working mainly in Japanese, with mailing lists and translations into English for non-Japanese participants.

[search key: jltf]

The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group has published the Working Group Note Best Practices for XML Internationalization. This document provides a set of guidelines for developing XML documents and schemas that are internationalized properly. Following the best practices describes here allow both the developer of XML applications, as well as the author of XML content to create material in different languages.

Editors: Yves Savourel, Jirka Kosek, Richard Ishida. [search key: tr-bp-xml-i18n]

FAQ-based article: What is a character encoding, and why should I care?

This article is aimed at content authors, users, and anyone who is unsure about what a character encoding is, and wants a brief summary of how it affects them.

By Richard Ishida, W3C. [search key: qa-what-is-encoding]

The i18n Core Working Group has begun reviewing this specification and will send comments if it finds any issues. If you have comments on this specification related to internationalization topics, you can send them to the i18n Interest Group list.

Update: The Working Group has now sent a list of comments.

[search key: review-uax29]