Standards
Standards

Understand the various specifications, their maturity levels on the web standards track, and their adoption.
Explore web standards
Groups
Groups

A variety of groups develop Web Standards, guidelines, or supporting materials.
About W3C groups
Get involved
Get involved

W3C works at the nexus of core technology, industry needs, and societal needs.
Find ways to get involved
Resources
Resources

Master Web fundamentals, use our developer tools, or contribute code.
Learn from W3C resources
News and events
News and events

Recent content across news, blogs, press releases, media; upcoming events.
Follow news and events
About
About

Understand our values and principles, learn our history, look into our policies, meet our people.
Find out more about us
Search
My account

Character Model: Normalization

Author(s) and publish date

Published:: 1 November 2005

The Internationalization Core Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization to improve text manipulation on the Web. Based on the character model Fundamentals W3C Recommendation, the draft provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for text normalization and string identity matching. Visit the Internationalization home page.

Related RSS feed

Subscribe to our news feed