- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:55:17 +0900
- To: JohnL@concepsys.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
"Lamertina, John" <JohnL@concepsys.com> wrote: > I've reviewed the June 2000, RFC284 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2854.html), > which reports to obsolete RFC2070, Internationalization of HTML, but I'm > still confused. > > How do I use HTML in my projects to internationalize our web-based software? HTML 4 has integrated most internationalization features of RFC 2070. See "A.3.13 Changes for internationalization" in the HTML 4 Specification [1]. Current Recommendation in the HTML 4 series is HTML 4.01 [2]. XHTML 1.0 [3] is a reformulation of HTML4 in XML 1.0 [4], and it preserves the same internationalization features of HTML 4 (plus the xml:lang attribute). If you want to take advantage of XML (e.g. all XML processors are required to accept the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings of ISO/IEC 10646 / Unicode), XHTML 1.0 is a good choice. You may find some useful information at the W3C Internationalization Activity page [5]. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/changes.html#h-A.3.13 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401 [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1 [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml [5] http://www.w3.org/International/ Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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