Weaving the Multilingual Web - 15th International Unicode Conference, 31 August 1999
by François Yergeau & Martin Dürst

Table of contents

• Weaving the multilingual Web - Standards and their implementation
• Overview
• Introduction: The Web
• Hypertext
• HTML
• Example of HTML
• XML
• Example of XML
• CSS & XSL
• Example of CSS
• HTTP
• The Idea of a World Wide Web
• Key Points
• What Standards Specify
• A Brief History Of WWW Internationalisation
• Reference I18N Model
• Character Encoding
• What can go wrong?
• Character Encoding: Requirements
• From HTTP to Text
• Decoding...
• Reference processing model
• Ref. proc. model (cont.)
• Ref. proc. model conformance
• Escaping
• Escaping (cont.)
• Bad NCRs
• Practical Limits of the Reference Processing Model
• Caveats
• Caveats
• Character encoding identification
• The MIME 'charset' Parameter
• IANA 'charset' Registry
• Character encoding negotiation
• Indicating character encoding (fallbacks)
• Client priorities for charset
• Failure cases
• Identifiers
• Identifiers in HTML, CSS, XML
• URI Internationalization
• Forms
• Forms and Query Parts
• Forms: Send back as received
• Forms: Hidden field
• Forms: accept-charset
• Forms: Internationalized URIs
• Language Identification
• Why language information?
• Language Tags
• Language tags syntax
• Language tag nesting
• Language-dependent styling
• Limits of language information
• Miscellaneous i18n features
• Language-dependent quotes
• Language-dependent quotes (cont.)
• CSS niceties
• CSS Font specification
• Font specification (cont.)
• Font descriptors
• Bidirectional Text (Bidi)
• Bidirectional Text (Bidi)
• Bidi (cont.)
• DIR attribute
• DIR attribute (cont.)
• <bdo> element
• Some useful entities
• BIDI in CSS
• BIDI in CSS (cont.)
• BIDI: CSS2 and HTML 4.0
• Current status
• Future developments
• Future: Ruby
• Future: Hyphenation
• XSL
• Multilingual Typograhy
• Missing Glyphs and Characters
• Missing Glyphs: Fallbacks
• Missing Glyphs: Solutions
• Missing Characters
• Multilingual Typography
• Multilingual Typography (cont.)
• Multilingual Typography (cont.)
• Advanced Multilingual Applications
• Conversion Servers
• Translation servers
• Translation Helper Applications
• Parallel Documents
• Designing an international Web site
• Definition
• Advantages
• Localization
• Language selection
• Control types
• Structure
• Structure (cont.)
• File names
• Page encoding
• Respect standards
• Respect standards (cont.)
• Text as graphics
• Text size
• Graphics
• Scripts, applets, multimedia
• Resources
• Related Talks
• Q&A