The W3C Internationalization (I18n) Activity works with W3C working groups and liaises with other organizations to ensure Web technologies work for everyone, regardless of their language, script, or culture.
From this page you can find articles and other resources about Web internationalization, and information about the groups that make up the Activity.
Read also about opportunities to participate and fund work via the new Sponsorship Program.
What the W3C Internationalization Activity does
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New translations into Romanian
Thanks to Sorin Velescu, the following article has been translated into Romanian.
Sfaturi utile de internationalizare pentru Web (Internationalization Quick Tips for the Web)
Talk slides: Flarenet Forum
On 11th February Richard Ishida gave a talk entitled Language Tagging using the New RFC 5646 at the FlaReNet Forum 2010 n Barcelona, Spain.
The talk proposed that interoperability will be served best by widening the adoption of the language tags specified by BCP 47, and to that end reviewed the various types of subtag described by the RFC 5646 syntax, and looked at some of the choices that need to be made when selecting subtags.
New translation into French
Thanks to the French Translation Team, Trusted Translations Inc., the following article has been translated into French.
Création de pages SVG Tiny en arabe, hébreu et autres scripts lus de droite à gauche (Creating SVG Tiny Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and other Right-to-Left Scripts)
New translations into Spanish
Thanks to the Spanish Translation Team, Spanish Translation US, the following articles have been translated into Spanish.
Selección de una etiqueta de idioma (Choosing a Language Tag)
Problemas de visualización provocados por BOM en UTF-8 (Display problems caused by the UTF-8 BOM)
Caracteres y glifos faltantes (Missing characters and glyphs)
Article for review: Character encodings in HTML and CSS
Comments are being sought on this article prior to final release. Please send any comments to www-international@w3.org (subscribe). We expect to publish a final version in one to two weeks.
This is an update, in a temporary location, of the tutorial Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS. (Please be careful about bookmarking the location, since it is only temporary.)
A lot of new material was added, eg. related to the UTF-8 BOM, normalization, etc., and the material was rearranged significantly. The rearrangement was to downplay slightly the XHTML 1.0 issues, given that that is now only relevant to IE6, but also to help readers more quickly find information they need for the format they are dealing with.
The explicit distinction between XHTML 1.0 and XHTML 1.1 with regard to MIME types was removed, since the XHTML2 WG is hopefully very close to issuing a PER that enables XHTML 1.1 to be served as text/html.
The update adds information about HTML5.
Where a section corresponds to an article that has been updated, those updates were also migrated to this document.
New translations into Romanian
Thanks to the Sorin Velescu, the following articles have been translated into Romanian.
Data si Ora (Dates and Time)
Formate pentru data (Date formats)
Capacitati de afisare (Display capabilities)
New translations into Spanish
Thanks to the Spanish Translation Team, Spanish Translation US, the following articles have been translated into Spanish.
Consejos rápidos sobre internacionalización para la Web (Internationalization Quick Tips for the Web)
Introducción a las codificaciones y a los sets de caracteres (Introducing Character Sets and Encodings)
New translations into Hungarian
Thanks to Dénes Kohn, Metaphraser Translation Company, the following articles have been translated into Hungarian.
Karakterkódolás ellenőrzése a validatorral (Checking the character encoding using the validator)
HTTP Fejlécek Ellenőrzése (Checking HTTP Headers)
Karakterkészletre vonatkozó beállítás a .htaccess fájlban (Setting charset information in .htaccess)
New translations into Romanian
Thanks to the Sorin Velescu, the following articles have been translated into Romanian.
Localizare vs. Internationalizare (Localization vs. Internationalization)
Site-uri Web monolinguale vs. multilinguale (Monolingual vs. multilingual Web sites)
Site-uri internationale si multilinguale (International & multilingual web sites)
New translations into Spanish
Thanks to the Spanish Translation Team, Spanish Translation US, the following articles have been translated into Spanish.
HTML, XHTML, XML y códigos de control (HTML, XHTML, XML and Control Codes)
¿Quién utiliza Unicode? (Who uses Unicode?)
Migración a Unicode (Migrating to Unicode)