- From: Stephanos Piperoglou <sp249@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 15:51:06 +0100 (BST)
- To: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@netvision.net.il>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Jonathan Rosenne wrote: > I miss any reference to the internationalization elements in HTML 4: The > handling of various character sets, DIR and LANG. Sorry for taking so long to respond; I've had to wade through hundreds of messages on this article. The main reason i18n issues where kept out of the article are, firstly, that they're mostly unimplemented (DIR for one is simply not there for either browser) and secondly because, since documentation is sparse, all of the compatibility tests I did for the article where tested by myself, and I don't have the resources to check for Internationalization; I don't have Unicode fonts, can't read or write Arabic, or anything else. I know very little of internationalization and hence can only make a passing appraisal of the browsers' capabilities. A lot of people have complained about this, and notice that it is prominently pointed out in the Introduction that this area is not covered. Perhaps if I can find an expert to help me with the research, I can update the article to include i18n information. By the way, if you liked the article, you might also be interested in the permanent column on HTML and CSS I'll start writing on webreference.com starting May 20th. You might want to visit webreference.com then to check it out. -- Stephanos Piperoglou -- sp249@cam.ac.uk ------------------- All I want is a little love and a lot of money. In that order. ------------------------- http://www.thor.cam.ac.uk/~sp249/ --
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