For details of the changes see w3.org/blog/International/20…

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…

Should indeed have looked at the Korean example more closely, but the important bit is what's happening at the top.

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…

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.

Updated article: Inline markup and bidirectional text in HTML w3.org/International/article… Updated and moved some material to a new location; and edited the main article to make it easier to read and make its advice clearer.

For review: Structural markup and right-to-left text in HTML w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/qu… This article has been updated and new material added. See a summary at w3.org/blog/International/20… We are looking for comments on GitHub by Thursday 13 May.

New article published: Can we derive base direction from language? w3.org/International/questio… Here's why the W3C Internationalization Working Group believes it is not.

Article published: Typographic character units in complex scripts w3.org/International/questio… Where grapheme clusters are not the best solution.

For review: Typographic character units in complex scripts w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/qu… We are looking for comments by Thursday 25 February. Comments via GitHub, please. github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/i…

Summarized test results: HTML5, dir isolation w3c.github.io/i18n-tests/res… Updated to show that Safari now supports bidi isolation when the dir attribute is used.

For review: Update to Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching w3c.github.io/charmod-norm/ Details at w3.org/blog/International/20… Comments to GitHub by 21 Oct please. github.com/w3c/charmod-norm/…

New i18n tests & results: CSS Logical Looks at support for -start/-end type values in RTL and vertical LR/RL contexts. Covers block size, margins, padding, border width/style/color/radius, caption side, & floats. w3c.github.io/i18n-tests/res…

Thanks to the JLReq Task Force of the W3C Internationalization Activity for all their hard work to release this update!