{"id":2914,"date":"2019-04-16T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2019-04-16T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T11:14:55","slug":"first-public-working-draft-strings-on-the-web-language-and-direction-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2019\/04\/16\/first-public-working-draft-strings-on-the-web-language-and-direction-metadata\/","title":{"rendered":"First Public Working Draft, &#8220;Strings on the Web: Language and Direction Metadata &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A First Public Working Draft of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/string-meta\/\">Strings on the Web: Language and Direction Metadata<\/a> was published.<\/p>\n<p>This document describes practices for identifying language and base direction for strings used on the Web. It was developed as a result of observations by the Internationalization Working Group over a series of specification reviews related to formats based on JSON, WebIDL, and other non-markup data languages. Unlike markup formats, such as XML, these data languages generally do not provide extensible attributes and were not conceived with built-in language or direction metadata.<\/p>\n<p>The concepts in this document are applicable any time strings are used on the Web, either as part of a formalised data structure, but also where they simply originate from JavaScript scripting or any stored list of strings.<\/p>\n<p>Public comments are welcome, please raise them as <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/w3c\/string-meta\/issues\/\">github issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A First Public Working Draft of Strings on the Web: Language and Direction Metadata was published. This document describes practices for identifying language and base direction for strings used on the Web. It was developed as a result of observations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/2019\/04\/16\/first-public-working-draft-strings-on-the-web-language-and-direction-metadata\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,185,186,14,15,5,16,17,19],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlight","category-new-resource","category-multilingweb","category-webi18n","category-w3csemanticweb","category-w3cwebarchitecture","category-w3cwebdesign","category-w3cwebofdevices","category-w3cwebservices","category-w3cwebuseragents","tag-tr-string-metadata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/International\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}