Posts related to the Worldwide Web Consortium's Internationalization Activity. 🐘 @webi18n@w3c.social
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New translation into French:
Utiliser des séquences d’échappement dans des documents balisés et en CSS (Using character escapes in markup and CSS)
w3.org/International/questio…
Thanks to Gwendoline Clavé, Clavoline Traduction for providing this translation.
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New translation into Chinese:
语言声明的种类 (Types of language declaration)
w3.org/International/questio…
Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.
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Published as FPWD to encourage review and contributions from users and experts relevant to supporting users of Gurmukhi on the Web.
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First Public Working Draft: Gurmukhi Layout Requirements
w3.org/TR/guru-lreq/
Describes aspects of layout and text in Punjabi using the Gurmukhi script. Complements a summary of gaps in Gurmukhi support on the Web and eBook technologies.
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New translation into French:
Sites Web unilingues et multilingues (Monolingual vs. multilingual Web sites)
w3.org/International/questio…
Thanks to Gwendoline Clavé, Clavoline Traduction for providing this translation.
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For review and comment, another (rewritten) first editor's draft.
Tamil Layout Requirements
w3c.github.io/iip/tamil/
Comments & suggestions via GitHub please.
github.com/w3c/iip/issues/ne…
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W3C i18n Activity invites review and comment for the following (rewritten) 1st editor's draft:
Thai Layout Requirements
w3c.github.io/sealreq/thai/
Comments & suggestions via GitHub please.
github.com/w3c/sealreq/issue…
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This channel is now also available via Mastodon at w3c.social/@webi18n. Tweets will continue to be posted here assuming that Twitter is available.
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New article: Font styles & font fallback
w3.org/International/article…
Non-exhaustive set of examples where choice of a font style may have a practical application. Implications for fallback fonts on the Web. Implications for generic fonts and fallback mechanisms near the end.
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For review: Font styles & font fallback
w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/ar…
Non-Latin script examples where you wouldn't want to fall back to a random font.
Please send any comments by 3 Nov, as github issues (not Twitter). Link at the bottom of the article.
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Updates to test results page at w3c.github.io/i18n-tests/res… show how CSS emphasis mark styling is now supported by major browser engines. Good news for Japanese & Chinese users.
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W3C Internationalization (i18n) Activity retweeted
Today, watch @XueFuqiao present an update of the @webi18n work: language enablement, #developer support, education and outreach - w3.org/International/ #i18n
w3.org/2022/09/TPAC/demos/i1… (video, transcript and slides)
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Normalization in HTML and CSS
w3.org/International/questio…
This article was largely rewritten to be clearer. For example, W3C doesn't require that all content be NFC normalized.
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The W3C I18n Activity page pointing to information for HTML/CSS content authors has been renamed
Internationalization techniques: Authoring Web pages
w3.org/International/techniq…
and will soon have some SVG and JavaScript info too.
There's also a new section on logical properties.
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Updated article: Styling vertical Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian text
w3.org/International/article…
Section on sideways values rewritten; browser support info updated; in-page live code panels added.
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New article: Ruby styling
w3.org/International/article…
Guidance for content authors on CSS Ruby style features, with info on current browser support. Companion article to Ruby Markup w3.org/International/article…
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For review: Ruby Styling
Discusses how content authors can use features of the CSS Ruby spec to render inline annotations in Japanese & Chinese (& Traditional Mongolian). Please review by 14 July.
See w3.org/blog/International/20…
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RTL rendering of LTR scripts is now published.
w3.org/International/questio…
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For review: RTL rendering of LTR scripts
Ways to produce runs of RTL text & mirror-image glyphs using HTML & CSS for languages that are nowadays normally written LTR, eg. Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Tifinagh, Old Norse runes, etc.
See w3.org/blog/International/20…
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Revised article "Languages using right-to-left scripts" lists 12 scripts and over 200 languages using RTL scripts in the modern day, plus rough Ethnologue data on countries & speaker numbers.
w3.org/International/questio…
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