The ‘i18n checker‘ is a free service by W3C that provides information about internationalization-related aspects of your HTML page, and advice on how to improve your use of markup, where needed, to support the multilingual Web.

This latest release uses a new user interface and redesigned source code. It also adds a number of new tests, a file upload facility, and support for HTML5.

This is still a ‘pre-final’ release and development continues. There are already plans to add further tests and features, to translate the user interface, to add support for XHTML5 and polyglot documents, to integrate with the W3C Unicorn checker, and to add various other features. At this stage we are particularly interested in receiving user feedback.

Try the checker and let us know if you find any bugs or have any suggestions.

Gyors tippek a web internacionalizálásához (Internationalization Quick Tips for the Web)

A b és i elemek használata (Using b and i elements)

A böngészőből jövő kérés nyelvi beállításai (Accept-Language used for locale setting)

Karakterkódolás deklarálása CSS-ben (Declaring character encodings in CSS)

A HTTP karakterkészletének (charset) paraméterezése (Setting the HTTP charset parameter)

These articles were translated into Hungarian thanks to Petra Csobanka.

Textlänge bei Übersetzungen (Text size in translation)

Nicht-englische Tags (Non-English tags)

xml:lang in XML-Dokument-Schemas (xml:lang in XML document schemas)

Überprüfung der Zeichencodierung mit dem Validator (Checking the character encoding using the validator)

These articles were translated into German thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann.

“RFC 3066 (or it successors)” was changed to “BCP 47”.

Links to the techniques index were added to the section “Further Reading”.

The translations were updated with the same changes.

Einstellung der bevorzugten Sprachen im Browser (Setting language preferences in a browser)

Einrichtung von MultiViews-Sprachvereinbarung auf Apache (Apache MultiViews language negotiation set up)

These articles were translated into German thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann.

An updated version of Working with Time Zones has just been published as a Working Group Note.

Date and time values can be complex and the relationship between computer and human timekeeping systems can lead to problems. The working group has updated this version to contain more comprehensive guidelines and best practices for working with time and time zones in applications and document formats. Use cases are provided to help choose an approach that ensures that geographically distributed applications work well. This document also aims to provide a basic understanding and vocabulary for talking about time and time handling in software.

Editor: Addison Phillips, Lab126.

Ukrainian:

Перехід на Unicode (Migrating to Unicode)

Russian:

Переход на Unicode (Migrating to Unicode)

These articles were translated thanks to Alexandr Shlapak.

This is reminder to register for the upcoming W3C MultilingualWeb workshop in Limerick, Ireland, 21-22 September 2011. (Co-located with the 16th Annual LRC Conference.)

See the Call for Participation for details about how to register for the workshop and propose a talk. Participation in the workshop is free.

The MultilingualWeb workshops, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the W3C, look at best practices and standards related to all aspects of creating, localizing and deploying the multilingual Web. The workshops are successful because they attracted a wide range of participants, from fields such as localization, language technology, browser development, content authoring and tool development, etc., to create a holistic view of the interoperability needs of the multilingual Web.

We look forward to seeing you in Limerick!

Lokalisering och internationalisering (Localization vs. Internationalization)

Deklarera teckenkodning i HTML (Declaring character encodings in HTML)

Skärmegenskaper (Display capabilities)

Datumformat (Date formats)

Datum och tid (Dates and Time)

These articles were translated into Swedish thanks to Olle Olsson.

The CSS Working Group has republished the CSS3 Ruby Module specification as a Working Draft. The document had previously been published in 2003 as a Candidate Recommendation.

“Ruby” are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This document proposes a set of CSS properties associated with ruby elements. They can be used in combination with the ruby elements of HTML.

The present Working Draft prepares the ground for the specification to be changed in a number of areas. Motivations for these changes include introduction of requirements arising from the Requirements for Japanese Text Layout document, updates to the handling of bopomofo ruby, and most importantly adaptations needed to support the new ruby markup model being introduced by HTML5.