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The CS Converter is particularly useful for experimenting with and testing your own counter styles, or for viewing or testing tweaks to the long list of ready-made templates at w3.org/TR/predefined-counter…
W3C Internationalization (i18n) Activity retweeted
Counter styles converter updated
r12a.github.io/app-counters/
Number ranges allowed.
New styles added to list.
Controls for options.
UI streamlined.
Bugs fixed & UI refreshed.
Handles direction and suffix/prefix better.
Copy buttons added.
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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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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…
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Should indeed have looked at the Korean example more closely, but the important bit is what's happening at the top.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Article published:
Use cases for bidi and language metadata on the Web
w3.org/International/article…
Information about text direction and language needs to be associated with strings used on the Web. This article explores use cases that support that need.
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For review: Can we derive base direction from language?
w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/qu…
We are looking for comments by Thursday 1 April.
Comments via GitHub, please.
github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/i…
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Article published: Typographic character units in complex scripts
w3.org/International/questio…
Where grapheme clusters are not the best solution.
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For review: Use cases for bidi and language metadata on the Web
w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/ar…
We are looking for comments by Thursday 11 March.
Comments via GitHub, please.
github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/i…
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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…
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6 Gap-analysis First Public Working Drafts published
Adlam w3.org/TR/adlm-gap/
Hebrew w3.org/TR/hebr-gap/
German w3.org/TR/latn-de-gap/
French w3.org/TR/latn-fr-gap/
N’Ko w3.org/TR/nkoo-gap/
Osage w3.org/TR/osge-osa-gap/
See w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/ge… for more info.
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The article "Who uses Unicode?" was updated because W3Techs estimates that 96.1% of 10 million home pages use UTF-8, as of Jan 2021. That's up from 86% in 2016.
w3.org/International/questio…
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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.
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