Congrats to @fantasai and @kojiishi for this new #W3CStandard that sets the ground of international writing modes: #timetoadopt
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CSS Writing Modes Level 3 defines #CSS support for various international writing modes, incl. horizontal left-to right text (such as in #English or #Hindi), horizontal right to-left text (such as #Hebrew or #Arabic), and vertically set text (such as for #Japanese or #Mongolian)
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These new CSS features allow a mixture of horizontal and vertical text regions on the same page. For example:
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So that the World Wide Web is usable worldwide, @w3c is actively seeking feedback and support from communities around the world to meet local needs for language support.

Dec 10, 2019 · 1:44 PM UTC

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To capture an overview of where work is needed, see the language matrix maintained by @r12a, @webi18n activity lead: w3c.github.io/typography/gap… #i18n
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To find out more about all the work happening in @w3c's #i18n, hear from @r12a who spoke at our #w3cdevs2018 #meetup last year in #Lyon: vimeo.com/312910612

Making the World Wide Web world wide

Richard Ishida presents how W3C Internationalization makes a reality of the Web being World Wide, and introduces the recently launched Internationalization Initiative…

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