Thanks to Ivan Baldwin the article “Character encodings” has now been translated into Bulgarian. [search key: article-o-charset]

The Okapi Framework Team has announced the first milestone of its Java-based products. The framework provides cross-platform
and open-source components and applications for localization tasks.

One of the components in this release is an XML filter based on an implementation of the W3C Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Recommendation.

The filter allows access to the translatable content of an XML document, based on any external or internal global rules, as well as local rules. The ITS processor provided supports the following data categories: Translate, Localization Note, Element Within Text, Terminology, Directionality, and Language Information.

Rainbow, an Okapi application, uses the filter to extract and merge translatable content to and from XLIFF. Many other utilities provided in the framework take advantage of the ITS-based filter as well, for example to perform pseudo-translation.

You can download the Okapi components and get their source code.

Thanks to Samuel Chong the FAQ-based article “Using <select> to Link to Localized Content” has now been translated into Traditional Chinese.

This article was updated to add and remove browser information and correct some text. For a detailed list of changes read the full post.

Translators should consider retranslating the whole article.

In the list of command sequences, removed entries for Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, IE Mac, Galeon, and Lynx, since those are described in the location pointed to just below. Added entries for Firefox 3, Google Chrome and Konqueror.

Changed

Some of the server-side language selection mechanisms require an exact match to the Accept-Language header. If a document on the server is tagged as fr (French) then a request for a document matching fr-CH (French as spoken in Switzerland) will fail.

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Some of the server-side language selection mechanisms will not match a long language tag in an Accept-Language header with a shorter tag associated with a document. If a document on the server is tagged as fr (French) then a request for a document matching fr-CH (French as spoken in Switzerland) will fail.

At the end of February, Felix Sasaki left the W3C to take up a post at the University of Applied Sciences at Potsdam in Germany.

We wish Felix success for the future, and thank him for his dedication and hard work in supporting the internationalization effort for the past four years.

Thanks to Gaston Diego Valente the FAQ-based article “CSS vs. markup for bidi support” has now been translated into Portuguese.

Thanks to Gaston Diego Valente the FAQ-based article “CSS vs. markup for bidi support” has now been translated into Spanish.

Thanks to Kamil Wiśniewski the article “Text size in translation” has now been translated into Polish.

See the results

These tests check whether and how a user agent displays list numbering when the value of the CSS list-style-type property is set to armenian, lower-armenian and upper-armenian.

A number of errors in the tests were corrected and the results page was rewritten to reflect the changes and results for latest versions of major browsers.

Thanks to Ana Backstone the FAQ-based article “Display problems caused by the UTF-8 BOM” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).