- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:07:14 -0800
- To: Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>
- CC: www <www-international@w3.org>
Suzanne Topping wrote: > > Basically I am interested in any issues relating to localization of XML in > web sites, that might differ from dealing with HTML-based sites. Do you have an example of a Web site that uses XML? I noticed that the following w3.org page uses XHTML: http://www.w3.org/ However, it doesn't start with the characters "<?xm" even though the charset is iso-8859-1... > Actually, this crosses > over into the internationalization (as it usually does) because I'm assuming > that there are good and bad methods for structuring things which have a big > impact on localization. Speaking of structuring things, that reminds me of a comment that we recently received from someone who localized Mozilla for Austrian German. He said that the following file had good comments for localizers, and had good conventions for ordered argument substitution (see the #1K and #2K stuff): http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/components/xfer/resources/locale/en-US/downloadProgress.dtd Erik
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