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This page points to resources on the W3C Internationalization site that are distributed among articles, tutorials, tests and techniques documents. Its design is still a work in progress. The content will continually grow and change as resources are added to the site.

Return to in-page contents list.Character sets, character encodings and escapes

byte order marks
removing the UTF-8 BOM (byte order mark) from a source file
possible display problems in (X)HTML
changing an encoding
In (X)HTML authoring applications
charset registry
choosing an encoding
XHTML, HTML and CSS
control codes
handling in XML, XHTML and HTML?
document character set
what it means; using other encodings
declaring encoding
in HTML, XHTML, XML
in CSS
charset registry
entities
see Escapes
escapes (NCRs and entities)
what are NCRs and entities
when to use them
use in style attributes
forms
see Forms
IDN and IRIs
see Resource identifiers
markup vs. Unicode characters
when to use which
NCRs (Numeric Character References)
see Escapes
serving-side declarations
server setup
Unicode support
in HTML
validation & checking
checking using the W3C HTML Validator?
checking character encoding information in the HTTP header

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missing characters/glyphs
dealing with

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:lang
browser settings
checking / changing
declaring
why
in (X)HTML
using language codes
IANA language tags
registry
using
ISO language codes
registry
2-letter and 3-letter codes
ISO country codes
language negotiation
defined
when to use
using Apache MultiViews
RFC 3066
RFC 3066bis
proposed successor to RFC3066, currently in development
styling with language attributes
in (X)HTML document?

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list-style-type
international use in ordered lists
ruby
definition
markup
styling
browser support

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browser support
Does my browser support the bidi algorithm and inline markup?
markup vs. CSS
Should I use styling for indicating bidirectionality in HTML or XHTML?
Should I use styling for indicating bidirectionality in XML?
markup vs. unicode characters
To correctly format bidi text in XHTML or HTML pages, should I use Unicode control codes or markup?
When should I use the dir attribute, and when should I use the ‏ and ‎ entities?
use of
Where can I find guidelines for creating bidirectional Web pages?
What do I need to understand to make my inline markup look right?
Why does my browser collapse spaces between Latin and Arabic/Hebrew text?
How do I override the bidirectional algorithm?
visual vs. logical order
What is visual vs. logical order?
writing systems
What directions are commonly localized languages written in?

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IDN and IRI
What are they? How do they work? Can I use them?
Simple test pages

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determining locales
Is it a good idea to use the HTTP Accept-Language header to determine the locale of the user?
displaying date formats
How do I prepare my web pages to display varying international date formats?
select box sorting
As part of a form, I have a list of terms in a drop-down box. Why are they not correctly sorted when I translate the items in the list?

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encoding
What is the best way to deal with encoding issues in forms that may use multiple languages and scripts?

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non-English markup
Can I write HTML and XML element and attribute tag names in languages and scripts other than English?

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<select> element
What are the best practices for using pull-down menus based on the select element to direct visitors to localized content?

Return to in-page contents list.Display issues

blank lines in page
When I'm using UTF-8 in some user agents, why do an extra line and sometimes unwanted characters appear at the top of my web page, and how do I remove them?
collapsed spaces in bidi text
Why does my browser collapse spaces between Latin and Arabic/Hebrew text?
display capabilities
Do I need to worry because display capabilities (screen sizes, number of colors, etc.) of computers vary in other countries?

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standards vs .quirks mode
What is 'standards mode' and 'quirks mode'?
types of web site
What is an 'international' or a 'multilingual' web site?
What are the trade-offs between international sites that are monolingual vs. multilingual?

Return to in-page contents list.Participate in the Internationalization Activity!

The Internationalization Activity welcomes the participation of individuals and organizations around the world to help improve the appropriateness of the Web for multiple cultures, scripts and languages.

How to participate:

More information about the Internationalization Activity.

Contact: Richard Ishida (ishida@w3.org).

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