First Public Working Draft, “Strings on the Web: Language and Direction Metadata“

A First Public Working Draft of Strings on the Web: Language and 
Direction Metadata was published.
https://www.w3.org/TR/string-meta/

This document describes practices for identifying language and base 
direction for strings used on the Web. It was developed as a result of 
observations by the Internationalization Working Group over a series of 
specification reviews related to formats based on JSON, WebIDL, and 
other non-markup data languages. Unlike markup formats, such as XML, 
these data languages generally do not provide extensible attributes and 
were not conceived with built-in language or direction metadata.

The concepts in this document are applicable any time strings are used 
on the Web, either as part of a formalised data structure, but also 
where they simply originate from JavaScript scripting or any stored list 
of strings.

Public comments are welcome, please raise them as github issues.
https://github.com/w3c/string-meta/issues/

Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2019 11:33:41 UTC