Thanks to the Tłumaczenia Dokumentów Team the article “Character encodings” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: article-o-charset]

Comments are being sought on this article prior to final release. Please send any comments to www-international@w3.org (subscribe). We expect to publish a final version in one to two weeks.

The article is a proposed replacement for the current article called Language tags in HTML and XML which describes how to construct and use language tags. The new article covers the same ground from the perspective of the successor to RFC 3066, and will be moved during publication to the same URI. [search key: article-language-tags]

Thanks to the Portuguese translation team, WTB Language Group, the FAQ-based article “Localization vs. Internationalization” has now been translated into Portuguese (language negotiated). [search key: qa-i18n]

Thanks to Pierre Goiffon the FAQ-based article “Setting the HTTP charset parameter” has now been translated into French (language negotiated). [search key: article-o-http-charset]

During the month of August, W3C staff presented at two meetings focused on raising the visibility of Web internationalization in India.

Under the eagis of the Indian Government’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the International Workshop on Internationalization, organized by the W3C Office, was held on 3-4 August in New Delhi, and the Summit on Internationalization of Web, organized by Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT), was held on 24-25 August in Bangalore.

Program and slides: Delhi

Press reports: The Hindu, BusinessLine SiliconIndia WebIndia123

Photos: India Office (Delhi), Ishida

Thanks to the Spanish translation team, WTB Language Group, the FAQ-based article “CSS character encoding declarations” has now been translated into Spanish (language negotiated). [search key: qa-css-charset]

Thanks to the Tłumaczenia Dokumentów Team the FAQ-based article “Checking HTTP Headers” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: qa-headers-charset]

Thanks to the Tłumaczenia Dokumentów Team the FAQ-based article “Setting language preferences in a browser” has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: qa-lang-priorities]

Thanks to the Vietnamese translation team, WTB Language Group, the FAQ-based article “CSS character encoding declarations” has now been translated into Vietnamese(language negotiated). This is our first Vietnamese translation.

Thanks to the Turkish translation team, WTB Language Group, the FAQ-based article “Non-English tags” has now been translated into Turkish (language negotiated). This is our first Turkish translation.