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

El tamaño del texto en la traducción (Text size in translation)

Imágenes de fondo que admiten la localización (Background images that support localization)

Estilos con el atributo lang (Styling using the lang attribute)

Thanks to Dénes Kohn, Metaphraser – Translation Company, the following articles have been translated into Hungarian.

Karakterkódolások (Character encodings)

Dokumentum karakter beállítás (Document character set)

Megjelenítési problémák amelyeket az UTF-8 BOM okoz (Display problems caused by the UTF-8 BOM)

Thanks to Trusted Translations Inc. the FAQ-based article “Bidi Space Loss” has now been translated into French, German and Italian.

Perte d’espace bidi

Bidirektionaler Leerzeichenverlust

Perdita di spazio Bidi

The tests of font linking and eot fonts were updated, along with the associated results pages. The number of tests was reduced to a single test per script, but test cases were created for HTML4, XHTML 1.1 and XHTML served as both text/html and XML. In addition, links to font licence information were added to the test notes. The Urdu font was also updated.

The tests are linked from here:

Font linking tests

EOT tests

The results can be found here:

Font linking tests

EOT tests

Thanks to Jens Meiert the following ’getting-started’ article has been translated into German.

Internationalisierungstips für das Web (Internationalization Quick Tips for the Web)

Thanks to the Spanish Translation Team, Spanish Translation US, the following article has been translated into Spanish.

CSS3 y texto internacional (CSS3 and International Text)

Thanks to Dénes Kohn, Metaphraser – Translation Company, the following articles have been translated into Hungarian.

Az (X)HTML oldal kódolásának megváltoztatása UTF-8-ra (Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8)

A Nyelv a Weben (Language on the Web)

Bevezető a Karakterkészletekbe és Karakterkódolásba (Introducing Character Sets and Encodings)

tcworld magazine has published an article by Tony Graham about the recently published W3C Note, Requirements for Japanese Text Layout.

Read the article

Continuing the work of repackaging the tests in the Internationalization test suite around 87 more tests, this time relating to right-to-left and bidirectional text have been updated. Each of the 87 tests are implemented for HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0 served as text/html, XHTML 1.0 served as XML, and XHTML 1.1 served as XML (ie. totally around 350 test cases).

There are also tables covering the results of the tests, and summaries of the findings. Most of these are new. The tests were run on recent versions of major browsers.

The tests and results are linked from here:

Text direction tests

(Note that the vertical text tests are not included in this announcement, since they are still in the early stages of development.)

As part of the ongoing work of repackaging the tests in the Internationalization test suite around 70 tests relating to character encodings and language declarations have been updated. Each of the 70 tests are implemented for HTML 4.0, XHTML 1.0 served as text/html, XHTML 1.0 served as XML, and XHTML 1.1 served as XML (ie. totally around 280 test cases).

There are also tables covering the results of each test, and summaries of the findings. The tests were run on recent versions of major browsers.

The tests and results are linked from here:

Character encoding tests

Language declaration tests