W3C Internationalization (i18n) Activity @webi18n

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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Noto font updates on Mac+Firefox Font display issues fixed in Nightly. For details see w3c.social/@webi18n/11148908…
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It is now possible to read character details more easily when reading about an orthography. See typo.social/@ri/111441464805… for details.
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New translation into French Les étiquettes de langues en HTML et XML (Language tags in HTML and XML) w3.org/International/article… Thanks to Gwendoline Clavé, Clavoline Traduction for providing this translation.
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Gap report: w3.org/TR/jpan-gap/#issue173… See CSS Text Decoration for how to use this feature. drafts.csswg.org/css-text-de…
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Interoperable emphasis marks Chinese and Japanese natively indicate emphasis for inline text using a small mark above or below the characters in horizontal text and to the right/left in vertical text. Now supported, using CSS, in all 3 major browser engines.
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Gap report: w3.org/TR/deva-gap/#issue93_… See Ready-made Counter Styles to use or adapt almost 200 patterns from around the world. w3.org/TR/predefined-counter…
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: All 3 major browser engines now support the ability to create custom counter styles—a major step forward in enabling fully interoperable list numbering & other counters that enable local approaches, especially for languages with smaller speaker populations.
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New translation into Chinese: 用Accept-Language确定用户的区域设置 (Accept-Language used for locale setting) w3.org/International/questio… Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.
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New translation into Chinese: 选择语言标签 (Choosing a Language Tag) w3.org/International/questio… Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.
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New translation into Chinese: 使用阿拉伯语、希伯来语和其他从右至左书写的文字创建HTML页面（教程） (Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts) w3.org/International/tutoria… Translated by Fuqiao Xue.
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First Public Working Draft published: Catalan Gap Analysis w3.org/TR/2023/DNOTE-latn-ca… Describes gaps for support of Catalan on the Web and in eBooks. Checks esp. CSS & HTML support in W3C specs and in browsers. Will grow over time.
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: <l·l> in Catalan signals a geminated /l/. The dot should NOT capitalise the 2nd L, eg. capitalisation of cancel·lar should produce Cancel·lar and not Cancel·Lar. This is now supported in all 3 major browser engines. Gap report: w3c.github.io/eurlreq/gap-an…
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(It is also fixed for various other languages where middle dot appears between other letters.)
Gap report: w3.org/International/alreq/g… Reporting direction to the server with dirname w3.org/International/questio…
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: All 3 major browser engines, Gecko, Blink, & WebKit, now support sending text direction of a field to the server using dirname. They also support changing the computed direction of a form field when set manually by a the user.
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New translations into Chinese: 使用语言属性设置样式 (Styling using language attributes) w3.org/International/questio… 哪些人在使用Unicode？ (Who uses Unicode?) w3.org/International/questio… Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing these translations.
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Les langues qui s’écrivent de droite à gauche (Languages using right-to-left scripts) w3.org/International/questio…
L’indicateur d’ordre des octets (BOM) en HTML (The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML) w3.org/International/questio…
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New translations into French Thanks to Gwendoline Clavé, Clavoline Traduction for providing these translations.
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INTERESTING I18N THREAD: Should CSS override font-style:oblique -14deg; with an italic font face, where one is available? github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/…
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