W3C Internationalization, i18n

織田信長 features an upper-side ruby annotation "1534〜82" and a lower-side ruby annotation おだのぶなが

We just published a new W3C draft note from the Internationalization Activity: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements

This explores diverse reading strategies across writing systems and defines essential user needs.

www.w3.org/TR/ruby-tts-...

Formatting dates and times for a user in Germany

Want your web app to feel local everywhere? New W3C guide walks through the most useful parts of JavaScript's Intl with simple, copy-paste examples you can use today.

www.w3.org/Internationa...

An address in Germany. The street name comes first, followed by the house number.

Addresses look completely different around the world.

New W3C article explains the differences & gives practical tips so your forms and databases don’t frustrate international users.

www.w3.org/Internationa...

YouTube video by W3C Text size in translation | Why translated text breaks your layout

Translation can drastically alter text length: English strings may expand by 200-300% in languages like German or French, or shrink in Asian languages. This video shows where long, unbreakable words can break layouts and cause design issues.

🎬 youtu.be/sgpZri88-qo

YouTube video by W3C The hidden rules of wrapping text on the Web

Have you ever resized your browser and seen text reflow? Behind that simple effect lies a world of linguistic and technical complexity: youtu.be/Pk2S2VXVFuI

FOR REVIEW: Number, currency, and unit formatting

w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/...

See the blog post at www.w3.org/blog/Interna...

New translation into Chinese:

字符编码：核心概念 (Character encodings: Essential concepts)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

New translations into Chinese:

在HTML中声明语言 (Declaring language in HTML)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

使用b和i元素 (Using b and i elements)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing these translations.

New translations into Chinese:

如何用Unicode控制字符处理双向文本 (How to use Unicode controls for bidi text)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

HTML中的字节顺序标记（BOM） (The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing these translations.

New translations into Chinese:

处理RTL文字的源代码和代码示例 (Working with source code markup and code examples for RTL scripts)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

双向文本空格丢失 (Bidi space loss)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing these translations.

FOR REVIEW: Guide to the ECMAScript Internationalization API

The article Guide to the ECMAScript Internationalization API is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Friday 26 December.

w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/...

See the blog post at www.w3.org/blog/Interna...

FOR REVIEW: Address formats around the world

The article Address formats around the world is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Friday 5 December.

w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/...

See the blog post at www.w3.org/blog/Interna...

New translation into Chinese:

HTML中的行内标记和双向文本 (Inline markup and bidirectional text in HTML)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese:

HTML中的结构标记和从右向左的文本 (Structural markup and right-to-left text in HTML)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

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New translation into Chinese:

CSS与标记语言对双向文本的支持 (CSS vs. markup for bidi support)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

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New translation into Chinese:

对选项菜单进行排序 (Sorting select options)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

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New translation into Chinese:

文本的视觉顺序与逻辑顺序 (Visual vs. logical ordering of text)
www.w3.org/Internationa...

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New translation into Chinese:

Unicode双向文本算法基础 (Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm basics) www.w3.org/Internationa...

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New translation into Chinese:

在.htaccess中设置charset信息 (Setting charset information in .htaccess) www.w3.org/Internationa...

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New translation into Chinese:

什么是行间注？ (What is ruby?) www.w3.org/Internationa...

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New translation into Chinese:

Web国际化快速提示 (Internationalization Quick Tips for the Web) www.w3.org/Internationa...

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New translations into Italian:

La dimensione del testo nella traduzione (Text size in translation) www.w3.org/Internationa...

Siti web internazionali e multilingue (International & multilingual web sites) www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Alessia Bosio for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese:

Apache MultiViews语言协商设置 (Apache MultiViews language negotiation set up) www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Persian:

چرا از ویژگی زبان استفاده کنیم؟
(Why use the language attribute?) www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Goudarz Jafari for providing this translation!

New translation into Italian:

Localizzazione vs. Internazionalizzazione (Localization vs. Internationalization) www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Alessia Bosio for providing this translation.

New translation into Italian:

Siti Web Monolingue vs Multilingue (Monolingual vs. multilingual Web sites) www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Alessia Bosio for providing this translation.

Greek text: ήσουν ή εγώ ή εσύ ΗΣΟΥΝ Ή ΕΓΩ Ή ΕΣΥ

- a disjunctive eta in a Greek sentence keeps its tonos diacritic

This behaviour is now interoperable across WebKit, Gecko, and Blink browsers.

More details: www.w3.org/TR/grek-gap/...

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Greek case conversion

WebKit now supports Greek specific behaviours for text-transform: uppercase:
- words that are all uppercase lose tonos
- for diphthongs with tonos on the first character tonos is removed but a dialytika is added above the second character in the diphthong

Should `touch-action` support logical directions like `pan-inline` / `pan-block`? · Issue #289 · w3c/alreq This question was prompted by the Pointer Event issue at w3c/pointerevents#505 What is touch-action? Imagine you have an element on a webpage (like a map or a list) that you can interact with using...

QUESTION for UI experts in RTL and vertical scripts.

Should touch-action support logical directions?

See the discussion at github.com/w3c/alreq/is...

This is only a start, since other browsers don't support this CSS yet, and Safari still doesn't support the 'replace' value. However, this is the kind of property that you can apply to all text now, and as browsers improve it will make the text look better.

More details: www.w3.org/TR/clreq-gap...