Internationalization / Localization

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• Using Multiple Languages in HTML, from Vancouver-Webpages
• an example of mule encoding in HTML
• Richard Goerwitz: RE: WWW support for Cyrillic (and UNICODE)
• ISO-8859-[1-10] is referenced in RFC 1345.
• Here is a FAQ about ISO-8859-1. from TU Vienna (mirrored in Ohio) and more about Internationalization (i18n) from the page of Michael Gschwind.

• MS-Windows, using code page 1252, normally uses the first 256 characters of Unicode, which is the equivalent to ISO 8859-1.
• CPI, a program to extract info from DOS .cpi files, by Axel Frinke & Matthias Paul.
• MacIntosh: only the first 128 characters are US-ASCII, the rest is non-standard.
• Unix supports ISO-8859-1, but many applications use only 7bit US-ASCII.
• A note about Japanese encoding, switching character sets. Japan currently uses EUC, JIS and Shift-JIS character encoding standards. Furthermore, Unicode, in the form of ISO/IEC 10646-1, is in the proceess of being adopted as a Japanese Industrial Standard, JIS X 0221-19XX, to be released sometime in 1995/96.
• information about using GIFs for Greek symbols
• how to write special characters like < ä ö ü & é è > or view the source of this document.
  The described "Entity Names" allow you to write special characters with 7-bit editors, too.

  Note: be careful with e.g. "&nbsp", as non-breaking space is not supported by all browsers. Also discouraged is the use of the soft hyphen.
  And a note re X-Windows: most fonts claiming to be "ISO- 8859-1" in X11R5 are actually 7-bit fonts. The implied lie is very unfortunate.

• A Working Draft on HTML predefined icon-like symbols.
• RFC 1766: March 1995 Tags for the Identification of Languages
• The Multilingual World Wide Webby Gavin T. Nicol c/o Electronic Book Technologies, Japan
• Dan Conolly: Non-western systems for the Web
• ISO International Organization for Standardization
• Presentation information and style sheets by W3C. There are also pointers to HTML Style sheets.
• HTML to the Max -- A Manifesto for Adding SGML Intelligence to the WWW
  C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Robert F. Goldstein:
  Using existing software, it is easy to support SGML as a specialized data type. For example, we have implemented a demonstration of an SGML viewer spawned from mosaic, using the commercial SGML editor Author/Editor, by SoftQuad, Inc. All we did was modify src.conf and .mailcap so both the server and client would recognize .tei as a file of type text/x-sgml-tei.

Bert Bos, i18n coordinator
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Last updated $Date: 2008/05/07 17:47:33 $