This article was largely rewritten. The background information was made more accessible to a general user. A command path was added for IE7. The text about specifying alternative language preferences was expanded, and instructions were added to describe how to create custom tags by finding values in the IANA Language subtag registry. The case of Chinese is discussed in detail, and a section was added about IE7’s defaults, with a suggestion that users add an additional language setting.

Please send any comments on the new text to www-international.

The Spanish, Polish and Portuguese translators should consider retranslating the whole article.

Presentation by Richard Ishida at the Localization Research Centre XI conference, Dublin, Ireland, on 26 October, 2006.

Program and slides

Thanks to Elena Nellson the FAQ-based article “Monolingual vs. multilingual Web sites” has now been translated into Russian (language negotiated).

Thanks to Elena Nellson the FAQ-based article “International & multilingual web sites” has now been translated into Russian (language negotiated).

Thanks to Lawan Nuntavovat the article “Serving XHTML 1.0” has now been translated into Thai (language negotiated). This is our first translation into Thai.

Thanks to Elena Nellson the FAQ-based article “Localization vs. Internationalization” has now been translated into Russian (language negotiated).

Presentation by Richard Ishida that opened the highly successful Fundamentos Web conference, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, on 3 October, 2006.

Program and slides

Blogs and press reports

Photos

Corrected path to dialogue box for Firefox (added Advanced). Also added ‘(tab)’ to Firefox and IE.

Translators (Spanish, Br Portuguese, and Polish) should consider providing this text.

Thanks to the Tłumaczenia Dokumentów Team the article “Setting the HTTP charset parameter” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated).

Since the publication of the new IANA Language Subtag Registry as the place to find language subtags, rather than the ISO code lists, this question is no longer relevant.

The article was almost completely rewritten to explain this.

The Portuguese translation has been removed, since the text is now so radically different.