Monthly Archives: August 2010

Introducerea seturilor de caractere si a codificarilor (Introducing Character Sets and Encodings)

This article was translated into Romanian thanks to Sorin Velescu.

Thanks to Maurício Samy Silva, the following article has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese.

Uso dos elementos b e i (Using b and i elements)

Thanks to Sorin Velescu, the following article has been translated into Romanian.

Alegerea Tag-ului de Limba (Choosing a Language Tag)

The Unicode CLDR committee is making Unicode locale-sensitive collation a major focus for the next release, CLDR 1.9. There are specific changes for a large number of languages, plus a change in the default ordering of punctuation vs symbols for all languages.

See the background document for more information:
http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-175.html

If you have any feedback on any of the actions, please contact the Unicode Consortium as described in the background document.

Review period for this issue closes on October 1, 2010.

Thanks to the Trusted Translations, Inc., the following articles have been translated into Spanish.

Codificación de formularios plurilingües (Multilingual form encoding)
Dirección del sistema de escritura e idiomas (Script direction and languages)

Comments are being sought on the following new articles prior to final publication:

1. Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS
2. Essential definitions related to character encodings
3. Choosing & applying a character encoding
4. Character encoding declarations in HTML
5. The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML
6. Normalization in HTML and CSS
7. 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:

• CSS character encoding declarations
• Using character escapes in markup and CSS
• Serving XHTML 1.0

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.