Monthly Archives: April 2023

The W3C Internationalization Activity has updated the article How to use Unicode controls for bidi text.

This article looks at how content authors can apply direction metadata to bidirectional text when markup is not available. It was largely rewritten to incorporate more up to date information and improve the examples.

The W3C Internationalization Activity has published the article Working with source code markup and code examples for RTL scripts.

Editing markup for pages in Arabic, Hebrew, and many other languages poses challenges unless a specialized editor is available. For similar reasons, it is also difficult to include examples of bidirectional code in explainers. This page looks at some of the problems content developers and implementers of editors are likely to be faced with, and offers some advice, where possible.

N’Ko Layout Requirements is out for wide review in preparation for publishing as a First Public Working Draft. We are looking for comments by Wednesday 3 May.

The N’Ko script is used for a West African koiné register of Manding (called Kángbɛ).

The document describes requirements for the layout and presentation of text in Web standards and technologies such as HTML, CSS, & Digital Publications. It supports the N’Ko Gap Analysis.

Please send any comments as github issues.

The article Working with source code markup and code examples for RTL scripts is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Wednesday 26 April.

Editing markup for pages in Arabic, Hebrew, and many other languages poses challenges unless a specialized editor is available. For similar reasons, it is also difficult to include examples of bidirectional code in explainers. This page looks at some of the problems content developers and implementers of editors are likely to be faced with, and offers some advice, where possible.

Please send any comments as github issues by clicking on this link, or on “Leave a comment” at the bottom of the article. (That will add some useful information to your comment.)

Déclarer un encodage de caractères en HTML (Declaring character encodings in HTML)

Choisir et appliquer un encodage de caractères (Choosing & applying a character encoding)

Thanks to Gwendoline Clavé, Clavoline Traduction for providing this translation.