- From: M.T. Carrasco Benitez <carrasco@innet.lu>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:27:59 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: i18n <www-international@w3.org>
1) i18n & multilinguism i18n englobes two traditions: - i18n.- Localizing the soft for *one* culture at the time. - multilinguims.- Working with *several* languages simultaneously. Some of the basics needs are common, such as the character set; some are not. The challange is to have a single model. 2) Labelling There is a consensus that sniffing is bad and proper labelling is needed. At least, Accept/Content-Language and Accept/Content-Charset are needed. 3) URL This is one of the weakest area. In the i18n workshop in Paris Yergeau et al. commented that the most urgent was the searching part. They proposed UTF-8. 4) Advancing i18n It is not clear why i18n (& multilinguism) it is not more advanced: - There are not big technollogical problems. - There is a very real need (building a multilingual server is a nightmare). - There are LOAD OF MONEY to be made. - There are facilities in the RFCs/drafts that are not implemented. Lets not blame any party. It is just so. 5) Interoperability Some cooperation between vendors is needed: "look, my browser works really well with my/his server". 6) A dedicated event to i18n-Web To give a final push, an event dedicated to this could be organized before the end of the year. 7) Web97 What can be do to put i18n in the main stream ? 8) Draft The internet-draft WInter (Web Internatiolization & Multilinguism) is at http://www.crph.lu/~carrasco/winter Please comment it or suggest what I have to include from this list. Regards Tomas
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