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               <h1 class="title">Internationalization of Web Design and Applications</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>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
	been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
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	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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                     <a href="../history/charmod" title="Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals publication history">2005-02-15</a>
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                  <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>
                     </h4>
                     <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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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/ruby" title="Ruby Annotation publication history">2001-05-31</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-ruby-20010531">Ruby Annotation</a>
                     </h4>
                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=ruby">translations</a>
	      &#xB7;
	    <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/05/ruby-errata">errata</a>
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                        <p>"Ruby" are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification defines markup for ruby, in the form of an XHTML module.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/i18n-html-tech-bidi" title="Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts publication history">2009-09-08</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-bidi-20090908/">Authoring HTML: Handling Right-to-left Scripts</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
		       </p>
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                     <a href="../history/unicode-xml" title="Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages publication history">2007-05-16</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/">Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>
	This document contains guidelines on the use of the Unicode Standard in conjunction with markup languages such as XML.

		       </p>
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                     <a href="../history/i18n-html-tech-lang" title="Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML &amp; HTML Content publication history">2007-04-12</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-lang-20070412/">Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML &amp; HTML Content</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>
Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.			 
		       </p>
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                     <a href="../history/arabic-math" title="Arabic mathematical notation publication history">2006-01-31</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-arabic-math-20060131">Arabic mathematical notation</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>Analyzes potential problems with the use of MathML for the presentation of mathematics in the notations customarily used with Arabic, and related languages.</p>
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <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>
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                     <a href="../history/jlreq" title="Requirements for Japanese Text Layout publication history">2011-11-29</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-jlreq-20111129/">Requirements for Japanese Text Layout</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Describes requirements for general
                        Japanese layout realized with technologies
                        like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is
                        mainly based on a standard for Japanese
                        layout, JIS X 4051, however, it also
                        addresses areas which are not covered by
                        JIS X 4051.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/css3-fonts" title="CSS Fonts Module Level 3 publication history">2011-10-04</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-fonts-20111004/">CSS Fonts Module Level 3</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/css3-ruby" title="CSS3 Ruby Module publication history">2011-06-30</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-ruby-20110630/">CSS3 Ruby Module</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>
The set of CSS properties proposed in this 
document can be used in combination with the ruby elements of HTML to 
produce the stylistic effects needed to display ruby text appropriately 
relative to base text.
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                     <a href="../history/css3-lists" title="CSS Lists and Counters Module Level 3 publication history">2011-05-24</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-lists-20110524">CSS Lists and Counters Module Level 3</a>
                     </h4>
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                        <p>This CSS level 3 module describes how lists are styled.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/html-bidi" title="Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML publication history">2010-03-04</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-html-bidi-20100304/">Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document contains proposals for new
features to be added to HTML to support bidirectional text in languages such
as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Thaana, Urdu, etc.</p>
                     </div>
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                     <a href="../history/i18n-html-tech-char" title="Authoring Techniques for XHTML &amp; HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0 publication history">2004-05-09</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-i18n-html-tech-char-20040509/">Authoring Techniques for XHTML &amp; HTML Internationalization: Characters and Encodings 1.0</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS, focusing specifically on advice about character sets, encodings, and other character-specific matters.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/css3-linebox" title="CSS3 module: line publication history">2002-05-15</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-linebox-20020515">CSS3 module: line</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Describes the positioning in the block progression direction both
of elements and text within lines and of the lines themselves. This
positioning is often relative to a baseline. It also describes special
features for formatting of first lines and drop caps.
</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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