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New translations into French
Gestion de l’encodage des caractères en HTML et CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)
La taille des textes dans les traductions (Text size in translation)
These articles were translated into French thanks to Jean-Christophe Helary, of K.K. DOUBLET.
Updated article: Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS
The paragraph about CSS encoding declarations in the “In a nutshell” section was changed from:
“Use the @charset rule for external style sheets (but not CSS in your HTML page) if you have non-ASCII content, such as font names, ids or class names, etc.”
to
“You can use @charset or HTTP headers to declare the encoding of your style sheet, but you only need to do so if your style sheet contains non-ASCII characters and, for some reason, you can’t rely on the encoding of the HTML and the associated style sheet to be the same.”
Update 3 June:
Additional changes were made throughout the page. In particular, lists of article content were removed to make it easier to keep the tutorial page up to date.
New translations into Romanian
Codările caracterelor (Character encodings)
Manipularea codării de caracter în HTML și CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)
Codarea caracterelor: Concepte esențiale (Character encodings: Essential concepts)
These articles were translated into Romanian thanks to George Misel.
New translation into Danish
Håndtering af tegnkodninger i HTML og CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)
This article was translated into Danish thanks to Çiğdem Küçük (Copypanthers). This is the first translation into Danish of an Internationalization Activity article.
New translations into German
Umgang mit Zeichencodierungen in HTML und CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)
Zeichencodierungen: grundlegende Konzepte (Character encodings: Essential concepts)
Eine Zeichencodierung wählen und anwenden (Choosing & applying a character encoding)
Das BOM (byte-order mark) in HTML (The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML)
Normalisierung in HTML und CSS (Normalization in HTML and CSS)
These articles were translated into German thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann.
New translation into Polish
Obsługa kodowania znaków w HTML i CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)
This tutorial was translated into Polish thanks to Bartosz Matusiak.
New translations into Russian and Ukrainian
Ukrainian: Обробка кодування символів в HTML і CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)
Russian: Обработка кодирования символов в HTML и CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)
These articles were translated thanks to Alexandr Shlapak.
Updated tutorial: Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS
Content from this tutorial was distributed across several new and existing articles to reduce duplication and improve usability and maintainability. The completely rewritten tutorial provides a succinct summary of advice at the start, and then gathers together and organizes pointers to articles that, taken together, help you grasp the subject matter. The title was also changed.
Content derived from the previous version of the tutorial (ie. in the new articles) has been updated to include HTML5.
For review: 7 new and 3 updated articles about character encoding
Comments are being sought on the following new articles prior to final publication:
- Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS
- Essential definitions related to character encodings
- Choosing & applying a character encoding
- Character encoding declarations in HTML
- The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML
- Normalization in HTML and CSS
- Characters or markup?
These articles have been derived from the former tutorial, which has already undergone a review. Since then, HTML5 has been brought to the fore in the articles and various small changes have been added, including some short summary information.
The three updated articles are the result of merging the tutorial material with existing articles. They are:
The character encoding section of the techniques page relating to HTML and CSS authoring has also been overhauled, to include the new material.
Please send any comments to www-international@w3.org (subscribe). We hope to publish a final version in one to two weeks.
Article for review: Character encodings in HTML and CSS
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.
This is an update, in a temporary location, of the tutorial Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS. (Please be careful about bookmarking the location, since it is only temporary.)
A lot of new material was added, eg. related to the UTF-8 BOM, normalization, etc., and the material was rearranged significantly. The rearrangement was to downplay slightly the XHTML 1.0 issues, given that that is now only relevant to IE6, but also to help readers more quickly find information they need for the format they are dealing with.
The explicit distinction between XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 with regard to MIME types was removed, since the XHTML2 WG is hopefully very close to issuing a PER that enables XHTML 1.1 to be served as text/html.
The update adds information about HTML5.
Where a section corresponds to an article that has been updated, those updates were also migrated to this document.
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