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

Joined March 2010
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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Just published: Kashmiri & Uighur Gap-analysis First Public Drafts These documents explore gaps in language support on the World Wide Web. Perso-arabic Kashmiri Gap Analysis w3.org/TR/arab-ks-gap/ Uighur Gap Analysis w3.org/TR/arab-ug-gap/
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3 new CSS i18n test rigs available: Text spacing w3.org/International/i18n-te… Text transform w3.org/International/i18n-te… Line alignment w3.org/International/i18n-te… They can be used to quickly create tests & store in a URL for sharing. See more at w3.org/International/i18n-te….
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Both Blink and Gecko browers now allow you to have upright counters above vertical lists. (Still waiting on WebKit.) This was one of the gaps we identified in our language enablement gap-analysis work. See w3.org/TR/jpan-gap/#issue170…
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Updated article: Approaches to full justification w3.org/International/article… South & Southeast Asian Writing Systems, adds more detail, and shows Tamil examples of inter-glyph stretching (as opposed to inter-character).
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New First Public Working Draft: Internationalization Glossary w3.org/TR/i18n-glossary/ As we develop further we'll add links to similar definitions elsewhere as well as adding new terms.
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Updated page: Declaring language in HTML w3.org/International/questio… Mostly, content was reorganised to expand the quick answer and de-emphasise XML aspects.
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Updated/new articles: Working with RTL scripts in HTML Structural markup and right-to-left text in HTML w3.org/International/questio… Inline markup and bidirectional text in HTML w3.org/International/article… Inline bidi markup examples w3.org/International/article…
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Ready-made Counter Styles has been updated to include more templates for scripts such as adlam, hanifi-rohingya, lepcha, meetei, santali, ethiopic and chinese. It also explains how to adapt suffixes/prefixes for a style. w3.org/TR/predefined-counter…
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Blink now supports CSS Counter Styles! Gecko already supported it, so now people using browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc. can number lists the way they need & vary suffixes by context. And upright numbers are finally possible for vertical text.
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