Monthly Archives: March 2007

These tests check whether a user agent displays IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names) as Unicode, punycode or otherwise in the status bar. User agents that try to detect possible homograph attacks do so in different ways. These tests explore some of those approaches.

Thanks to Andrew Osobka and Natalia Fabisz the FAQ-based article “Using <select> to Link to Localized Content” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Thanks to Andrew Osobka and Natalia Fabisz the article “Serving XHTML 1.0” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Getting Started material: This is a second in a proposed series of pages that will introduce you to key internationalization topics and tasks, and direct you towards articles or resources on the W3C Internationalization subsite that will take you to the next level of understanding.

This document introduces topics related to declaring the human language of your content, and related topics, such as language-based styling, content negotiation, and user navigation.

By Richard Ishida, W3C.

Information about the language in use on a page is important for accessibility, styling, searching, and other reasons. In addition, language information that is typically transmitted between the user agent and server can be used to help improve navigation for users and the localizability of your site. This tutorial will help you take advantage of the opportunities that are available now and in the near future by declaring language information appropriately.
By following this tutorial you should be able to:

• recognize the available alternatives for declaring language, and how they differ,
• understand the difference between metadata about the expected language of the audience and the text-processing language,
• choose the best way of declaring language for your content
• locate information about how to specify language attribute values.

Thanks to the Tłumaczenia Angielski Team the FAQ-based article “Two-letter or three-letter language codes” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Thanks to the Tłumaczenia Angielski Team the FAQ-based article “Why use the language attribute?” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Thanks to the Tłumaczenia Angielski Team the FAQ-based article “Ruby” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Comments are being sought on the revised section of this article entitled Does it work? prior to final completion. Please send any comments to www-international@w3.org (subscribe). We expect to publish a final version in one to two weeks.