Tag(s): tutorial-char-enc

Gestion de l’encodage des caractères en HTML et CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)

La taille des textes dans les traductions (Text size in translation)

These articles were translated into French thanks to Jean-Christophe Helary, of K.K. DOUBLET.

The paragraph about CSS encoding declarations in the “In a nutshell” section was changed from:

“Use the @charset rule for external style sheets (but not CSS in your HTML page) if you have non-ASCII content, such as font names, ids or class names, etc.”

to

“You can use @charset or HTTP headers to declare the encoding of your style sheet, but you only need to do so if your style sheet contains non-ASCII characters and, for some reason, you can’t rely on the encoding of the HTML and the associated style sheet to be the same.”

Update 3 June:
Additional changes were made throughout the page. In particular, lists of article content were removed to make it easier to keep the tutorial page up to date.

Codările caracterelor (Character encodings)

Manipularea codării de caracter în HTML și CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)

Codarea caracterelor: Concepte esențiale (Character encodings: Essential concepts)

These articles were translated into Romanian thanks to George Misel.

Håndtering af tegnkodninger i HTML og CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)

This article was translated into Danish thanks to Çiğdem Küçük (Copypanthers). This is the first translation into Danish of an Internationalization Activity article.

Umgang mit Zeichencodierungen in HTML und CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)

Zeichencodierungen: grundlegende Konzepte (Character encodings: Essential concepts)

Eine Zeichencodierung wählen und anwenden (Choosing & applying a character encoding)

Das BOM (byte-order mark) in HTML (The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML)

Normalisierung in HTML und CSS (Normalization in HTML and CSS)

These articles were translated into German thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann.

Ukrainian:

Вибір і застосування кодування (Choosing & applying a character encoding)

Призначення кодування символів в HTML (Declaring character encodings in HTML)

Призначення кодування символів в CSS (Declaring character encodings in CSS)

Кодування символів: Основні поняття (Character encodings: Essential concepts)

Russian:

Выбор и применение кодирования (Choosing & applying a character encoding)

Назначение кодировки символов в HTML (Declaring character encodings in HTML)

Назначение кодировки символов в CSS (Declaring character encodings in CSS)

Кодирование символов: Основные понятия (Character encodings: Essential concepts)

These articles were translated thanks to Alexandr Shlapak.

Obsługa kodowania znaków w HTML i CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)

This tutorial was translated into Polish thanks to Bartosz Matusiak.

Ukrainian: Обробка кодування символів в HTML і CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)

Russian: Обработка кодирования символов в HTML и CSS (Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS)

These articles were translated thanks to Alexandr Shlapak.

Content from this tutorial was distributed across several new and existing articles to reduce duplication and improve usability and maintainability. The completely rewritten tutorial provides a succinct summary of advice at the start, and then gathers together and organizes pointers to articles that, taken together, help you grasp the subject matter. The title was also changed.

Content derived from the previous version of the tutorial (ie. in the new articles) has been updated to include HTML5.

View the tutorial.

Comments are being sought on the following new articles prior to final publication:

1. Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS
2. Essential definitions related to character encodings
3. Choosing & applying a character encoding
4. Character encoding declarations in HTML
5. The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML
6. Normalization in HTML and CSS
7. Characters or markup?

These articles have been derived from the former tutorial, which has already undergone a review. Since then, HTML5 has been brought to the fore in the articles and various small changes have been added, including some short summary information.

The three updated articles are the result of merging the tutorial material with existing articles. They are:

• CSS character encoding declarations
• Using character escapes in markup and CSS
• Serving XHTML 1.0

The character encoding section of the techniques page relating to HTML and CSS authoring has also been overhauled, to include the new material.

Please send any comments to www-international@w3.org (subscribe). We hope to publish a final version in one to two weeks.