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PLEASE REVIEW: Rules for Simple Placement of Japanese Ruby w3.org/blog/International/20… & send comments by Friday 26 July.
Provides a single, simple set of rules for placement of Ruby text in Japanese typography for use as a minimal baseline by implementers and spec developers.
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The W3C i18n WG uses test rigs to quickly pull tests together and share them. See github.com/w3c/i18n-tests/wi…
Yesterday's new rig supports text decoration. w3c.github.io/i18n-tests/exp…
See the full list at github.com/w3c/i18n-tests/wi…
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And 3 more FPWDs containing information about how Tamil, Mongolian, and Tibetan orthographies work. Details and links at w3.org/blog/International/20…
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Just published: 21 First Public Working Drafts exploring gaps in language support on the Web. For details and links see w3.org/blog/International/20…. Languages include: arb, fa, zh-hans, zh-hant, am, nl, ka, el, hu, bn, hi, pa, gu, ta, ja, iu, cr, chr, lo, km, jv, th, mn, bo
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Just published: First Public Working Draft of "Rules for Simple Placement of Japanese Ruby".
w3.org/TR/2020/WD-simple-rub… Provides rules for placement of ruby in Japanese as a minimum baseline for implementers and spec writers. Developed by JLReq TF github.com/w3c/jlreq/.
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W3C just made available a recent presentation summarising recent developments in the Internationalization Activity.
See w3.org/2020/05/AC/talk/i18n#… (with Chinese, Japanese, & Korean captioning), or
on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=PKA_6ABp…
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Updated tests show that support for strict, loose & normal CSS settings for Japanese & Chinese linebreaks are now interoperably supported by the 3 major browser engines.
w3c.github.io/i18n-tests/res…
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W3C Internationalization (i18n) Activity retweeted
Note btw that UniView 13 supports all the new characters.
r12a.github.io/uniview/
✨🍾✨ #Unicode13 has been released! ✨🎉✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 143,859! ✨🥳✨ More information can be found here → unicode.org/versions/Unicode…
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W3C Internationalization (i18n) Activity retweeted
March is here! This means that #Unicode13, with nearly 144,000 characters, will be released very soon → unicode.org/versions/Unicode…
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And finally Spanish (still Ibidem)
Etiquetado de texto sin idioma w3.org/International/questio…
Tipos de declaración de idioma w3.org/International/questio…
Creación de páginas HTML en árabe, hebreo y otros scripts de derecha a izquierda w3.org/International/tutoria…
And into Italian (also by Ibidem)
Etichettatura del testo senza lingua w3.org/International/questio…
Tipi di dichiarazione linguistica w3.org/International/questio…
Cambiare una pagina HTML in Unicode w3.org/International/questio…
New translations into French (from Ibidem)
Marquer du texte sans langue w3.org/International/questio…
Création de pages HTML en arabe, hébreu et autres scripts de droite à gauche w3.org/International/tutoria…
Tri des options de sélection w3.org/International/questio…
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The CSS Working Group has published CSS Writing Modes Level 3 as a W3C Recommendation w3.org/TR/2019/REC-css-writi….
Defines support for various international writing modes & their combinations, including left-to-right and right-to-left text ordering as well as vertical orientations.
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New article: Internationalization tips for linking to headings & figures w3.org/International/questio…
Linking to headings and figures for a page that will be translated, or a multilingual page? This article looks at things you need to bear in mind and provides markup templates.
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For review: Internationalization tips for linking to headings & figures w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/qu…
If you link to headings and figures, this article looks at things you need to bear in mind for internationalization & provides markup templates that will be helpful.
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New translations into French
Gestion de l’encodage des caractères en HTML et CSS w3.org/International/tutoria…
La taille des textes dans les traductions w3.org/International/article…
Thanks to Jean-Christophe Helary, of K.K. DOUBLET.
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And finally, new Spanish translations from Ibidem:
Idiomas en la Web w3.org/International/getting…
Indicar el idioma de destino de un enlace w3.org/International/questio…
Elegir y aplicar una codificación de caracteres w3.org/International/questio…
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New French translations from Ibidem Translations:
Normalisation en HTML et CSS w3.org/International/questio…
Jeu de caractères du document w3.org/International/questio…
Sites Web internationaux et multilingues w3.org/International/questio…
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... and a couple more:
Codifica dei moduli multilingue w3.org/International/questio…
Codici di linguaggio ISO a due o tre lettere w3.org/International/questio…
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New Italian translations by Ibidem Group.
Dichiarare il linguaggio in HTML w3.org/International/questio…
Perché usare l'attributo lingua? w3.org/International/questio…
Utilizzo dell'attributo HTML translate w3.org/International/questio…
Servire HTML e XHTML w3.org/International/article…
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