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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.

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New translation: Одноязычные и многоязычные веб-сайты

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

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Интернациональные и многоязычные веб-сайты

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

Categories: Translation needed

การใช้ XHTML 1.0

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.

Categories: Translation needed

Локализация по сравнению с интернационализацией

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

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Categories: Translation needed

New talk slides: Practical & Cultural Issues in Designing International Web Sites

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Picture of Richard Ishida presenting at Web Fundamentals

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

Categories: Talks

Setting language preferences in a browser

Updated article

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.

Categories: Update

Ustawianie parametru charset HTTP

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

Categories: Translation needed

Two-letter or three-letter language codes

Updated article

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.

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Categories: Update

Language tags in HTML and XML

Updated article

The IETF has just published a new specification describing how to construct language tags. The new RFC 4646, which replaces RFC 3066, with the new IANA Language Subtag Registry address a number of long standing issues with language subtags.

This article has been completely rewritten to provide a gentle introduction to how to construct language tags following the new rules.

Categories: Highlight, Update

HTTP 헤더 확인

Thanks to the Korean translation team, WTB Language Group, the FAQ-based article “Checking HTTP Headers” has now been translated into Korean (language negotiated). This is our first Korean translation.

Categories: Translation needed

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