This series of tests checks whether a user agent automatically recognizes that a file declared as US-ASCII is really UTF-8 encoded, and displays the text as UTF-8, even if the encoding declarations say otherwise.

Initial test results are also provided.

Some user agents produce unexpected results when displaying files that contain a UTF-8 signature (byte order mark). This series of tests allows you to see whether that holds true for your user agent.

The tests were simplified and better documented, and a new test was added related to PHP includes. An initial set of results was also added.

Presentation by Christian Lieske at the “Oasis Open Standards Day”, Wiesbaden, Germany, on 9 November, 2006, and at the 28th “ASLIB Translating and the Computer Conference”, London, UK, on 16 November, 2006.

Link to Call for Participation

Position papers are due 15 December (extended deadline) for the Third Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) on 13-14 January 2007 in Hyderabad, India, jointly hosted by the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and Bhrigus Software. Attendees will discuss improvements for using SSML to render under-represented languages including Arabic, Hebrew and the Indian languages Telugu, Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarthi and Urdu. Visit the Voice Browser home page.

Thanks to ลาวัณย์ นันทโววาทย์ (Lawan Nuntavovat), WebStarThai, the FAQ-based article “Styling using the lang attribute” has now been translated into Thai (language negotiated).

Thanks to the Tłumaczenia Team the FAQ-based article “Non-English tags” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Thanks to ลาวัณย์ นันทโววาทย์ (Lawan Nuntavovat) the FAQ-based article “CSS character encoding declarations” has now been translated into Thai (language negotiated).

Added a section, ‘Using the subtag registry’ to give basic advice on where and how to find the subtags.

Moved text about 2 or 3 letter ISO codes to the section on the language subtag. Changed the section title “Using language tags” to “Constructing language tags”.

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Organized by data categories, the ITS set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and can be used with new or existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Comments are welcome through 10 December.

Thanks to Lawan Nuntavovat the article “Character encodings” has now been translated into Thai (language negotiated).