New i18n Developments New i18n Developments at the W3Cat the W3C

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Recent I18n Activity organizational changesRecent I18n Activity organizational changes

ITS Working GroupITS Working Group

GEO Working GroupGEO Working Group

I18n Core Working GroupI18n Core Working Group

W3C OverviewW3C Overview

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Mission:Lead the technical evolution of the Weband ensure its interoperability

Keywords: consensus and vendor neutrality

Created and led by:Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW.

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• HP, Microsoft, Sun, WebMethods, Sony, Fujitsu, Software AG, IBM, Apple, Elisa, …

• HP, Microsoft, Sun, WebMethods, Sony, Fujitsu, Software AG,

• IBM, Apple, Elisa, …• Nokia, Siemens, Vodaphone, DoCoMo, T-Online, …• Academia Sinica, FhG, MIT, CSIRO, EUnet, ETRI,

ERCIM, …• Boeing, ChevronTexaco, Agfa, DaimlerChrysler,

Elsevier, …• and many more…

3 Hosts14 Offices

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360 Members40 Liaisons

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Architecture

4 Domains

Interaction

Technology & Society Web Accessibility

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ArchitectureXML CoreXML QueryXML SchemaXSLInternationalizationWS AddressingWS Choreog.WS Descn.XML Protocol

4 Domains32 Working

Groups13 Interest

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InteractionCompound docsXFormsDevice IndependenceSVGHTMLMultimodal InteractionCSSSymmTimed TextVoice Browser

Technology & SocietyPatent PolicyPolicy & OutreachP3P Spec.RDF Data AccessSemantic Web BPDKey Mng.

Web AccessibilityEducation & OutreachAuthoring ToolsEvaluation & RepairProtocols & FormatsUser Agent AccessibilityWeb Content Acc.

Recent I18n Activity Recent I18n Activity Organizational ChangesOrganizational Changes

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ArticlesGuidelines

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Addison Phillips,Quest software

Richard Ishida,W3C

Yves Savourel,Enlaso

Martin Dürst,Aoyama Gakuin Uni.

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Internationalization Tag Set Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Working Group(ITS) Working Group

http://www.w3.org/International/its/

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✓The title says " .W3C " in Hebrew,פעיל ו ת הבי נא ום

✗The title says " פע יל ו ת הבינאום, W3C" in Hebrew.

"<span dir="rtl"> פ ע י ל ו ת ה ב י נ א ו ם , W 3 C</span>"Markup (characters ordered as in memory!)

Using the bidi algorithm only

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At the VISTA console, submit a job to print. (Refer to “Submitting a Job” in Chapter 5.)

At the operator control panel, make sure the printing system is in Make-Ready mode. The MAKE-READY/RUN indicator should not be lit.

Press the START button to sound the horn. The MAKE READY / RUN indicator flashes.

At the third beep, press the START button again. The START indicator remains lit and paper movement begins.When the web reaches minimum print speed, the test pattern prints.

Press the MAKE-READY/RUN button to place the printing system in Run mode and start printing the live test pages. The MAKE-READY/ RUN indicator should be lit.

<para>Press the START button to sound the horn. The MAKE-READY/ RUN indicator flashes.

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<para>Press the START button to sound the horn. The MAKE-READY/ RUN indicator flashes.

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Am Steuerpult prüfen, ob der Make-Ready-Modus aktiv ist. (Die Anzeige MAKE-READY/RUN darf nicht leuchten).

START drücken, so dass die Hupe ertönt und die Anzeige MAKE READY / RUN blinkt.

Beim dritten Ton erneut START drücken. Die Anzeige START leuchtet konstant, und der Papiertransport läuft an.

Von der VISTA-Konsole aus einem Druckauftrag übermitteln. (Siehe hierzu “Auftrag übergeben” in Kapitel 5.)

<para>Press the <span translate="no">START</span>button to sound the horn. The <span translate="no">MAKE-READY/ RUN</span>indicator flashes.

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<para>Press the <span translate="no">START</span>button to sound the horn. The <span translate="no">MAKE-READY/ RUN</span>indicator flashes.

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Volcanic eruptions have literally devastated large inhabited areas. During the 1914 eruption of Sakurajima in Kyushu, 687 houses in Kurokami were buried in hot ash. What remained of this shrine gate, previously five meters tall, was left as a reminder.

Kurokami maibutsu gate(腹五社神社黒神埋没鳥居),Sakurajima Island.

<image src="kk-torii.jpg" height="180" width="240"caption="Kurokami maibutsu gate (腹五社神社黒神埋没鳥居), Sakurajima Island."/>

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Volcanic eruptions have literally devastated large inhabited areas. During the 1914 eruption of Sakurajima in Kyushu, 687 houses in Kurokami were buried in hot ash. What remained of this shrine gate, previously five meters tall, was left as a reminder.

Kurokami maibutsu gate(腹五社神社黒神埋没鳥居),Sakurajima Island.

<image src="kk-torii.jpg" height="180" width="240"><caption>Kurokami maibutsu gate (<span xml:lang="ja">腹五社神社黒神埋没鳥居</span>), Sakurajima Island.</caption></image>

Other things: bidi markup, abbr, styling, etc.

Guidelines, Education & Guidelines, Education & Outreach (GEO) Outreach (GEO) Working GroupWorking Group

http://www.w3.org/International/geo/

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GeneralInternational & multilingual Web sitesMonolingual vs. multilingual Web sitesServing XHTML 1.0

Characters & encodingCharacter encodingsDocument character setWho uses Unicode?An Introduction to Multilingual Web AddressesLanguage tags in HTML and XMLThe HTTP Charset parameterChecking HTTP headersChecking the character encoding using the validatorCSS character encoding declarationsMultilingual form encodingHTML, XHTML, XML and control codesUnexpected characters or blank linesSetting encoding in web authoring applicationsSetting 'charset' information in .htaccessMissing characters and glyphsNon-English tags

LanguageWhy use the language attribute?Using HTTP and meta for language informationLanguage tags in HTML and XML2-letter or 3-letter language codesStyling using the lang attributeSetting language preferences in a browser

When to use language negotiationApache MultiViews language negotiation set upAccept-Language used for locale setting

Bidirectional textWhat you need to know about the bidialgorithm and inline markupBidi space lossXHMTL/HTML & bidi formatting codes vs. markupCSS vs. markup for bidi support

Resource identifiersAn Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses

Local formatsDisplaying formatted datesSelect box sortingDates and time

MiscellaneousDisplay capabilitiesScript direction & languagesIntroduction to Indic ScriptsRuby

On the wayGlobal gateway pull-downsXSLT for multilingual outputUpgrading to UnicodeUsing the link element

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Now availableUsing language information in XHTML, HTML and CSSCharacter sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS

In preparationDeclaring Language in HTML and HTMLCreating Bidirectional XHTML/HTML PagesMultilingual Web AddressesAn Introduction to Writing Systems

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Site search'Site map'Topic indexTechniques indexNews filters & RSS feedsTranslation processRedesign, liaising with WAI (in preparation)'Getting started' textWe need your feedback

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primary language metadata

Text-processing languagethe language of a specific range of text

used for processing such as text-to-speech, styling, etc.

can indicate only ONE language at a time

The French word for catis chat.

This is French text.

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primary language metadata

Text-processing languagethe language of a specific range of text

used for processing such as text-to-speech, styling, etc.

can indicate only ONE language at a time

Primary language metadatadescribes the language(s) of the document as a whole

not a list of all languages used in the document

could be more than one language

The French word for catis chat.

The French word for catis chat.

This is French text.

This is an English document.

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Japanese phrase book

hello 今日は

thank you ありがとう

goodbye さようなら

Greetings

This Web page contains an enormous amount of useful stuff.

We hope you will enjoy

Bienvenue

Cette page contient une quantitéénorme de choses utiles.

Nous espérons que ceci vous plaira.

Bonjour cher lecteur.

Voici des choses que vous pouvez lire. Nous les avons traduits pour que vous les compreniez; malgré le fait que la navigation reste en anglais.

MyOrganization

Go here

Go there

Go elsewhere

Go back

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HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:46:04 GMTServer: Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3…Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8Content-Language: en HTTP Content-Language header

<html lang="en"> <head>…<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" /> …</head><body><p>The French word for <em>cat</em> is <em lang="fr">chat</em>.</p>…</body></html>

Language attribute on html tag

Content-Language meta tag

Language attribute on embedded element

I18n Core Working GroupI18n Core Working Group

http://www.w3.org/International/core/

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Character Model for the World Wide Web

Fundamentals REC!

Resource Identifiers CR

Normalization WD

International Resource Identifiers (IRIs) Proposed Standard

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• UTR#23

• XML 1.0 3e

• XSLT 2.0,

• XQuery 1.0 Serialization

• TAG Web Arch document

• CSS3

• CCXML

• CSS 2.1

• SSML

• XML ID

• SVG 1.2

• XHTML 2.0

• VoiceXML 2.1

• Media Types in Binary Data in XML

• SOAP 1.2

• WSDL 2.0

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• Use of quotes

• Elimination of title

• Abbreviations

• Entities

• etc.

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