Posts related to the Worldwide Web Consortium's Internationalization Activity. 🐘 @webi18n@w3c.social

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The article Approaches to line breaking has been significantly revised and is out for a second wide review. We are looking for comments by Thursday 2 August. w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/ar…
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Here are some links to information about the newly announced W3C Internationalization Initiative: Program overview w3.org/International/sponsor… Press release w3.org/2018/07/pressrelease-… Language matrix: w3c.github.io/typography/gap…
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New article out for wide review: Approaches to line breaking w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/ar… Looking for comments by Wednesday 4 July. High level summary of various typographic strategies for wrapping text at the end of a line, for a variety of scripts.
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Don't miss the IUC 42 (Internationalization & Unicode Conference) submission deadline this Friday, March 16, 2018. unicodeconference.org/call-f…
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Most of the tests in the W3C Internationalization test suite have now been ported to github at github.com/w3c/i18n-tests/. Follow the links from w3.org/International/tests/ to find test results, then click in the left column of that page to run a test.
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W3C is always looking for expert advice on questions related to text layout. Here's what's currently needed for Chinese: w3c.github.io/i18n-activity/… Please contribute to the linked github threads if you have authoritative information.
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Text Layout Requirements for the Arabic Script just published as First Public Working Draft. w3.org/TR/2018/WD-alreq-2018… Still plenty to do! Looking for comments and contributors. github.com/w3c/alreq/issues (Or help with other languages: w3c.github.io/typography/gap…)
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Just updated: "Inline markup and bidirectional text in HTML" w3.org/blog/International/20… Update brings it in line with recent browser developments and simplifies the guidelines. Examples link to live versions, and browser support information has been added.
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Out for review: Updated article, Inline markup and bidirectional text in HTML w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/ar… . Guidelines simplified, browser support info added, live tests added to examples, etc. Feedback via the link by 12 Dec please.
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New: Strings and bidi. Problems seen when strings are inserted into text in LTR vs. RTL directional contexts. w3.org/International/article…
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