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The W3C Internationalization (I18n) Activity works with W3C working groups and liaises with other organizations to make it possible to use Web technologies with different languages, scripts, and cultures. From this page you can find articles and other resources about Web internationalization, and information about the groups that make up the Activity.
Recent highlights
Stop press 23 September 08 New tests: Web fonts
Stop press 15 August 08 Updated tests & results: Language declarations
Stop press 8 August 08 New tests & results: CSS encoding detection
Stop press 4 August 08 Updated tests & results: Language-dependent styling
Stop press 4 June 08 New talk slides: @media Conference 2008
Stop press 16 April 08 Updated Working Draft: Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N)
All news
Updated article: An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses
Information was updated about support for paths as IRIs in latest browsers. For a detailed list of changes read the full post. [search keys: article-idn-and-iri]
New translation: Daty i czas
Thanks to Ana Backstone the article "Dates and Time" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: article-o-time]
New translation: Obsługa bidi - style CSS czy znaczniki?
Thanks to Sebastian Backstone the FAQ-based article "CSS vs. markup for bidi support" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: qa-bidi-css-markup]
New translation: Tagowanie tekstu bez języka
Thanks to K.Wiśniewski the FAQ-based article "Tagging text with no language" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: qa-no-language]
New tests: Web fonts
These tests explore how and if a user agent supports download of font information over the Web, particularly for complex script support. Fonts are downloaded both as directly as OpenType fonts, and using an EOT wrapper. Both methods tested use the CSS @font-face mechanism.[search key: test-webfonts]
3 new translations: Πολυγλωσσικές Φόρμες, Κώδικες γλώσσας με δύο ή τρία γράμματα, and Μη Αγγλικά στοιχεία
Thanks to the microo.net editor team, Γιώργος Τσιλεδάκης, the FAQ-based articles "Multilingual Forms", "Two-letter or three-letter language codes", and "Non-English tags" have now been translated into Greek (language negotiated). [search keys: qa-forms-utf-8 qa-lang-2or3 qa-non-eng-tags]
New translation: Ημερομηνίες και Χρόνος
Thanks to the microo.net editor team, Γιώργος Τσιλεδάκης, the article "Dates and Time" has now been translated into Greek (language negotiated). [search key: article-o-time]
New translation: Sortowanie rozwijanej listy
Thanks to K.Wiśniewski the FAQ-based article "Sorting select options" has now been translated into Polish (language negotiated). [search key: qa-select-sorting]
Updated tests & results: Language declarations
These tests examine whether language information is available for text processing when declared in various different ways.
The format of the tests was improved, and the 6th test page was dropped (dealing with language attributes on block elements) since it replicates tests elsewhere.
The results were rewritten to reflect behaviour of the latest major browsers.
Update: An error was fixed in test page 3 and three new test pages were added, to examine the effect of multiple language values in the meta element and precedence of language attribute and meta element. The tests were re-run and the results page updated. [search key: test-lang-decl]
New tests & results: CSS encoding detection
These tests examine whether user agents follow the rules in CSS 2.1 about detecting the encoding of CSS style sheets. This is particularly important if you style sheet uses non-ASCII characters in such things as class names, content, or font names. [search key: test-encoding-detection]
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