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               <h1 class="title">Internationalization of Web Architecture</h1>
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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
     For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n">Internationalization</a>.</p>
      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
      <p>
         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
	been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
	W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
	Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation
	Track</a>.</p>
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
	have the same level of W3C endorsement.</p>
      <h3 id="stds">Standards</h3>
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                  <td class="table_datecol">
                     <a href="../history/its" title="Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0 publication history">2007-04-03</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/">Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=its">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/International/its/itstagset/its-errata.html">errata</a>
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                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>A set of recommendations for data
                        categories that can be mapped to elements
                        and attributes to support the
                        internationalization and localization of
                        marked up content. Implementations are
                        provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG,
                        and for existing vocabularies like XHTML,
                        DocBook and OpenDocument.</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/charmod" title="Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals publication history">2005-02-15</a>
                  </td>
                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/">Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals</a>
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                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=charmod">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/charmod-fundamentals-errata.html">errata</a>
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                        <p>Architectural Specification building on
                        Unicode to provide authors of
                        specifications, software developers, and
                        content developers with a common reference
                        for interoperable text handling on the
                        World Wide Web.</p>
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      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/timezone" title="Working with Time Zones publication history">2011-07-05</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-timezone-20110705/">Working with Time Zones</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>
This document contains guidelines and best 
practices for working with time and time zones in applications and 
document formats.
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsCR">Candidate Recommendations</a>, <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
      Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
      process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
      become obsolete specifications.</p>
      <h3 id="cr">Candidate Recommendations</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/charmod-resid" title="Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers publication history">2004-11-22</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is CR" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-charmod-resid-20041122/">Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Architectural Specification providing authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for the use of resource identifiers building on Unicode.</p>
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      <h3 id="wd">Other Working Drafts</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/ltli" title="Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web publication history">2006-06-12</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ltli-20060612/">Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
	Describes mechanisms based on BCP 47 for identifying or selecting the language of content or locale preferences used to process information using Web technologies. 
			 
		       </p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/charmod-norm" title="Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization publication history">2005-10-27</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-charmod-norm-20051027/">Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Architectural Specification providing authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for normalization and string identity matching to improve interoperable text handling on the World Wide Web.
		       </p>
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      <h2 id="obsolete">Obsolete Specifications</h2>
      <p>These specifications have either been superseded by others,
      or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
      purposes, but are not intended to be used.</p>
      <h3 id="retired">
	    Retired
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                     <a href="../history/itsreq" title="Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements publication history">2006-05-18</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-itsreq-20060518/">Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
When creating schemas (XML Schema, DTD, etc.), it is important to include constructs that meet the needs of content authors dealing with international audiences, and address the needs of the localization community. This document provides a list of key requirements to achieve such a goal. 
		       </p>
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	                    <h2>Resources Developed Outside W3C</h2>
	    
	                    <p>The following resources are relevant to this area of
	    work.</p>
	    
	                    <h3>Internationalized Resource Identifiers (RFC
	    3987)</h3>
	    
	                    <p>
                        <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt">RFC
	    3987: Internationalization Resource Identifiers</a>
	    defines a new protocol element, the Internationalized
	    Resource Identifier (IRI), as a complement to the Uniform
	    Resource Identifier (URI).</p>

	                    <h3>Internet-Draft: BCP 47 (RFC 4646 and RFC 4647)</h3>
	    
	                    <p>
                        <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt">IETF Best Current Practice 47</a> describes language tags and language tag matching for cases where it is desirable to indicate the language used in an information object. Comprises two IETF RFCs: RFC 4646 Tags for Identifying Languages and RFC 4647 Matching of Language Tags. The two editors of this best practice participate in the Internationalization Working Group. </p>

	                    <h3>Date and Time Formats</h3>
	    
	                    <p>
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827">Date and Time Formats</a> is a W3C Member Submission that defines a profile of ISO 8601, the International Standard for the representation of dates and times, likely to satisfy most requirements.</p>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Query?note=NOTE-datetime-19980827">translations</a>
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