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.
What the W3C Internationalization Activity does
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New article: Why use the language attribute?
FAQ-based article: Why should I use the language attribute in web pages?
By Deborah Cawkwell, BBC World Service.
New article: Setting ‘charset’ information in .htaccess
FAQ-based article: How do I use .htaccess directives on an Apache server to serve files with a specific encoding?
By Richard Ishida, W3C.
Authoring Techniques for HTML/XHTML Internationalization: 3 First Working Drafts issued
The GEO Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has published three First Working Drafts under the general title of Authoring Techniques for HTML/XHTML Internationalization. They are Characters and Encodings 1.0, Specifying the language of content 1.0 and Handling Bidirectional Text 1.0. These new documents have been separated out from what was previously a single document and updated. They provide HTML authors with techniques for developing internationalized HTML using XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, or HTML 4.01, supported by CSS1, CSS2 and some aspects of CSS3.
Recent Progress on Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)
Comparison of Unicode Programming Models in Programming Languages
ICU Overview: The Open-Source Unicode Library, v2.8
Presentation by Mark Davis at the 25th Internationalization & Unicode Conference in Washington DC, USA on 1 April, 2004.
Language Tags and Locale Identifiers
Presentation by Mark Davis & Addison Phillips at the 25th Internationalization & Unicode Conference in Washington DC, USA on 1 April, 2004.
Web Internationalization: Standards and Practice
An Introduction to Writing Systems: A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script support and Unicode
Associating Character Encoding and language Information with HTML, XHTML and CSS Files
Presentation by Richard Ishida at the 25th Internationalization & Unicode Conference in Washington DC, USA on 31 March, 2004.