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/.

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…

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.

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.

Summarized test results: CSS Pseudo, first-letter w3c.github.io/i18n-tests/res… Tests spruced up, and results updated.

The new Short I18n Review Checklist points developers of specifications to aspects of a spec that may need internationalization review. It can also be used by spec reviewers, to get an idea of what to look for in a spec. w3.org/International/techniq…

New Working Group Note published! Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/ Tags: normalization, case folding, identity matching, invisible unicode characters, emjoi, ...

Updated article: Character encodings: Essential concepts w3.org/International/article… Updated with explanations of the terms ‘user-perceived character’, ‘grapheme-cluster’, ‘typographic character unit’, and ‘glyph’, and a warning about the vague use of the term ‘character’.

Article published: Approaches to Line Breaking w3.org/International/article… Gives a high level summary of typographic strategies for wrapping text at the end of a line, for a variety of scripts.