Re: Creating and viewing multilingual web content

• From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
• Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:01:28 -0400 (EDT)
• To: lorna@mail.magna.com.au (Lorna McKenzie)
• Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199809171201.IAA17260@access2.digex.net>

to follow up on what Lorna McKenzie said:

> We are investigating the use of Unicode with HTML 4.0 to 
> develop and display the documents directly to the browser.  Using 
> individual fonts such as MingLu (Chinese), GulimChe (Korean), etc. is 
> also being considered. 
> 
> We do not wish to 'reinvent the wheel'  and would like to discuss 
> this issue with others who are who are enabling the viewing of 
> multilingual web content without using a PDF format.  I apologise if 
> this is not a topic for this list and would appreciate being pointed 
> to the correct one.

Well, we are interested in the interactions between
internationalization and accessibility.  On the other hand, if
you are not involved in the W3C internationalization interest
group, you might want to connect with them.

Al

Received on Thursday, 17 September 1998 09:17:11 UTC