W3C Internationalization (I18n) Activity - Category: Update http://www.w3.org/blog/International Home page of W3C's Web Internationalization Activity--resources for increasing accessibility of the Web for worldwide audiences. en-EU hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Updated article: Styling using language attributes http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2009/11/19/updated_article_styling_using_language_a 2009-11-19T12:30:24Z Richard Ishida Update Read the article The major change was the addition of detailed information about use of CSS selectors with xml:lang, but there were many other edits (see the list below). Translators should consider retranslating the whole tutorial. [search keys: qa-css-lang] [...] Read more! Read the article

The major change was the addition of detailed information about use of CSS selectors with xml:lang, but there were many other edits (see the list below). Translators should consider retranslating the whole tutorial. [search keys: qa-css-lang]

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]]> Updated article: Language tags in HTML and XML http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2009/10/09/updated_article_language_tags_in_html_an_1 2009-10-09T18:10:18Z Richard Ishida Update Read the article This tutorial was updated to incorporate changes made to BCP 47 by the recent publication of RFC 5646. Changes to BCP 47 include the introduction of extended language subtags, and the addition of ISO 639-3 language subtags, bringing the total number of subtags in the registry to almost 8,000. Translators should consider retranslating the whole tutorial. [search keys: article-language-tags] Read the article

This tutorial was updated to incorporate changes made to BCP 47 by the recent publication of RFC 5646. Changes to BCP 47 include the introduction of extended language subtags, and the addition of ISO 639-3 language subtags, bringing the total number of subtags in the registry to almost 8,000.

Translators should consider retranslating the whole tutorial. [search keys: article-language-tags]

]]> Updated tests: Web fonts http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2009/08/13/updated_tests_web_fonts 2009-08-13T18:36:38Z Richard Ishida Test The tests of font linking and eot fonts were updated, along with the associated results pages. The number of tests was reduced to a single test per script, but test cases were created for HTML4, XHTML 1.1 and XHTML served as both text/html and XML. In addition, links to font licence information were added to the test notes. The Urdu font was also updated. The tests are linked from here: Font linking tests EOT tests The results can be found here: Font linking tests EOT tests The tests of font linking and eot fonts were updated, along with the associated results pages. The number of tests was reduced to a single test per script, but test cases were created for HTML4, XHTML 1.1 and XHTML served as both text/html and XML. In addition, links to font licence information were added to the test notes. The Urdu font was also updated.

The tests are linked from here:

Font linking tests

EOT tests

The results can be found here:

Font linking tests

EOT tests

]]> Updated tests: HTML and CSS and text direction http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2009/07/23/updated_tests_html_and_css_right_to_left 2009-07-23T08:10:42Z Richard Ishida Test Continuing the work of repackaging the tests in the Internationalization test suite around 87 more tests, this time relating to right-to-left and bidirectional text have been updated. Each of the 87 tests are implemented for HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0 served as text/html, XHTML 1.0 served as XML, and XHTML 1.1 served as XML (ie. totally around 350 test cases). There are also tables covering the results of the tests, and summaries of the findings. Most of these are new. The tests were run on recent versions of major browsers. The tests and results are linked from here: Text direction tests (Note that the vertical text tests are not included in this announcement, since they are still in the early stages of development.) Continuing the work of repackaging the tests in the Internationalization test suite around 87 more tests, this time relating to right-to-left and bidirectional text have been updated. Each of the 87 tests are implemented for HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0 served as text/html, XHTML 1.0 served as XML, and XHTML 1.1 served as XML (ie. totally around 350 test cases).

There are also tables covering the results of the tests, and summaries of the findings. Most of these are new. The tests were run on recent versions of major browsers.

The tests and results are linked from here:

Text direction tests

(Note that the vertical text tests are not included in this announcement, since they are still in the early stages of development.)

]]> Updated tests: HTML and CSS character encodings and language declarations http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2009/07/21/updated_tests_html_and_css_character_enc 2009-07-21T15:33:03Z Richard Ishida Test As part of the ongoing work of repackaging the tests in the Internationalization test suite around 70 tests relating to character encodings and language declarations have been updated. Each of the 70 tests are implemented for HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0 served as text/html, XHTML 1.0 served as XML, and XHTML 1.1 served as XML (ie. totally around 280 test cases). There are also tables covering the results of each test, and summaries of the findings. The tests were run on recent versions of major browsers. The tests and results are linked from here: Character encoding tests Language declaration tests As part of the ongoing work of repackaging the tests in the Internationalization test suite around 70 tests relating to character encodings and language declarations have been updated. Each of the 70 tests are implemented for HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0 served as text/html, XHTML 1.0 served as XML, and XHTML 1.1 served as XML (ie. totally around 280 test cases).

There are also tables covering the results of each test, and summaries of the findings. The tests were run on recent versions of major browsers.

The tests and results are linked from here:

Character encoding tests

Language declaration tests

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