Thanks to the Trusted Translations, Inc., the following articles have been translated into both European and Brazilian Portuguese.

Definir a codificação em aplicações de autorização web / Como definir a codificação em aplicativos de criação web (Setting encoding in web authoring applications)
Utilizando entidades de caracteres e NCRs / Uso de entidades de caracteres e NCRs (Using character entities and NCRs)
Conjunto de caracteres do documento / Conjunto de caracteres do documento (Document character set)

On 6th May Richard Ishida gave a talk entitled Internationalization & its challenges at the Technology, Standards and Internationalization Conference that was run to mark the opening of the W3C India Office in New Delhi, India.

The talk describes the work of the Internationalization Activity at the W3C, and ways in which people in South Asia can contribute to that work.

The HTML and CSS text direction tests in the Internationalization Activity test suite have been updated as follows:

• HTML5 and XHTML5 were added as new test formats
• tests now use strict DOCTYPEs
• reference graphics in the vertical text tests were improved
• the order of tests related to browser chrome was changed

In addition, a new results page was created for the tests about vertical text.

Other changes behind the scenes include gathering of all tests into a single PHP file (generatehtml.php is no longer used). Code in the PHP file was also streamlined.

Thanks to the Bhavatmaj Seth, the following getting-started article has been translated into Hindi.

वेब पर भाषा (Language on the Web)

Thanks to the Spanish Translation Team, Spanish Translation US, the following articles have been translated into Spanish.

Etiquetas que no están en inglés (Non-English tags)
Ruby (Ruby)
Estilo y etiquetado de ruby (Ruby Markup and Styling)

Thanks to the Bhavatmaj Seth, the following article has been translated into Hindi. This is the first translation of an Internationalization Activity article into Hindi.

परिचय कैरेक्टर समूह और कूटबन्धन (Introducing Character Sets and Encodings)

The CSS webfonts tests in the Internationalization Activity test suite have been updated as follows:

• a set of WOFF font tests were added
• HTML5 and XHTML5 were added as a new test formats
• tests now use strict DOCTYPEs
• results pages were consolidated and updated to reflect latest browser version behaviour, and to make it easier to see the assertions used for the tests

Thanks to the Trusted Translations, Inc., the following articles have been translated into both Iberian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Modificação da codificação da página (X)HTML para UTF-8 / Como mudar a codificação de página (X)HTML para UTF-8 (Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8)
Internacionalização – Dicas rápidas para a Web / Dicas rápidas de internacionalização para a Internet (Internationalization Quick Tips for the Web)
Introdução de conjuntos de caracteres e codificações / Introdução a conjuntos de caracteres e codificações (Introducing Character Sets and Encodings)

The HTML language declaration tests in the Internationalization Activity test suite have been updated as follows:

• tests were simplified, and now rely only on :lang for language detection
• HTML5 and XHTML5 were added as a new test formats
• tests now use strict DOCTYPEs
• results pages were updated to reflect latest browser version behaviour, and to make it easier to see the assertions used for the tests
• some small errors in the tests were corrected

Other changes behind the scenes include gathering of all tests into a single PHP file (generatehtml.php is no longer used). Code in the PHP file was also streamlined.

The general improvements to the test and results pages mentioned above will be added to other tests over time.

The HTML and CSS character encoding tests in the Internationalization Activity test suite have been updated as follows:

• new tests were added to examine behaviour related to the byte-order mark and better represent the current detection algorithm for HTML5
• HTML5 was added as a new test format
• tests now use strict DOCTYPEs
• results pages were updated to reflect latest browser version behaviour, and to make it easier to see the assertions used for the tests

Other changes behind the scenes include gathering of all tests into a single PHP file (generatehtml.php is no longer used). Code in the PHP file was also streamlined.

The general improvements to the test and results pages mentioned above will be added to other tests over time.