- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:42:36 +0000
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: public-i18n-core@w3.org
Richard Ishida wrote: > FYI > > Spent a good deal of time on education and outreach work. > > New WG participants, please take a look at these, and feel free to comment using public-i18n-core list, or respond to any comments already raised on www-international list. > > We still don't quite have Addison on board, but will definitely hold a meeting next week, Tuesday 2pm GMT. > > > - edited and responded to comments about > Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content > editors copy at http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html > > > - implemented comments and published for review: > An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses, Does it work? > http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/#work > modified further based on new comments received > > - wrote and published new article as part of Getting Started series: Language on the Web > http://www.w3.org/International/getting-started/language > Here are few remarks. http://www.w3.org/International/getting-started/language#what 1st paragraph: "HTML and XML-based formats allow you to declare the *human* language of a document ..." You are for "human language" vs "natural language" apparently. 4th paragraph <li> item" Why declare language? discusses why, in a little more detail, content authors and developers should use language information." (use language or *declare* language?) You write "text processing" in this getting strated "text-processing" (with hyphen) in the referenced tutorial. > - rewrote and published tutorial, Declaring Language in XHTML and HTML > http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/language-decl/ > > - (substantially) modified 2 more tutorials to remove dependency on slide format (to make maintenance easier)and to improve editorially > Creating (X)HTML Pages in Arabic & Hebrew > http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/ > Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS > http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ > > - created blog posts for all 47 GEO articles under /International - in line with tutorials, talks, etc - should significantly reduce effort and help ensure the list is kept up to date > http://www.w3.org/blog/International?cat=33 > replaces http://www.w3.org/International/articles/ > > - checked and posted 3 new Polish translations: > http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-2or3.pl.php > http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-why.pl.php > http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-ruby.pl.php > > - investigated and wrote blog about spellchecking and language declarations in Xmetal > http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/?p=8 > > > Best regards. > > ============ > Richard Ishida > Internationalization Lead > W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) > > http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ > http://www.w3.org/International/ > http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ > > >
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