Category: w3cWebDesign

The article Use cases for bidi and language metadata on the Web is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Thursday 11 March.

The W3C Internationalisation Working Group recommends that data formats and string data are always associated with information about text direction and language. This is to ensure that the data can be correctly managed when displayed to a user. This article explores use cases that substantiate the need for this type of information.

Please send any comments as github issues by clicking on this link, or on “Leave a comment” at the bottom of the article. (This will add some useful information to your comment.)

The article Typographic character units in complex scripts is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Thurday 25 February.

CSS defines the typographic character unit as a basic unit of text for use with editing operations, however the meaning of a that term can vary according to the operation, and there are issues in working with such units in complex scripts. In this article we look at examples of some of those differences and issues.

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The W3C Internationalization Activity has just published First Public Working Drafts for 6 more documents that explore gaps in language support on the World Wide Web.

• Adlam Gap Analysis
• Hebrew Gap Analysis
• German Gap Analysis
• French Gap Analysis
• N’Ko Gap Analysis
• Osage Gap Analysis

These drafts complement the 21 Gap-analysis documents published last June.

We are looking for expert contributors who can help us move this work forward by answering questions, documenting other gaps in support, and creating tests. For more information about the program, see this 15 minute overview (slides), and see the Language Enablement overview page.

An editorial update of Requirements for Japanese Text Layout has been published. The key changes include the following:

• Fixes for various errata, and improved wording in a number of locations.
• Merge of English and Japanese versions into a single document, with switches that allow readers to view the text in either language, or both. A particular language can also be requested via the URL (for example, like this: English, Japanese).
• Assignment of link targets to each list item and note, making it possible to point into the document in a more fine-grained way.

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編集上の修正を行った日本語組版処理の要件を公開しました。主要な変更点は以下の通りです。

・いくつかの誤りを訂正し、多くの箇所の表現を改善しました。
・日本語・英語版を単一ページに統合し、読者が各言語単独または両方を含む形で表示できるようにしました。(英語もしくは日本語表示のように)各言語単独で表示するURLも利用可能です。
・文書中の各リスト項目とノートにリンクアンカーを追加し、より細かく文書の特定箇所へリンクできるようになりました。

In preparation for publication as a Working Group Note, we are seeking wide review of the document Rules for Simple Placement of Japanese Ruby. We are looking for comments by Friday 26 July.

The Japanese layout requirements document describes some complex aspects of ruby handling, and frequently offers alternative possible approaches. This document provides a single, simple set of rules for placement of Ruby text in Japanese typography which can be used as a minimal baseline by implementers and spec developers.

Please send any comments as github issues.

Following on from the publication of gap-analyis documents as FPWD, three more documents have been published as FPWD that contain information about how Tamil, Mongolian, and Tibetan orthographies work. These documents are intended to support the gap-analysis work.

Tamil Layout Requirements
https://www.w3.org/TR/ilreq-taml/

Mongolian Layout Requirements
https://www.w3.org/TR/mlreq/

Requirements for Tibetan Text Layout and Typography
https://www.w3.org/TR/tlreq/

The W3C Internationalization Activity has just published First Public Working Drafts for 21 documents that explore gaps in language support on the Worldwide Web. Some of these documents are from individual contributors, whereas others are the result of work in a language enablement task force. The list below points to the location of the FPWD and also to the relevant group home page or to the relevant GitHub repository where the work was done.

We are looking for expert contributors who can help us move this work forward by answering questions, documenting gaps in support, and creating tests. For more information about the program, see this 15 minute overview (slides).

Arabic & Persian Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/alreq-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/alreq/

Chinese Layout Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/clreq-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/clreq/

Ethiopic Layout Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/elreq-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/elreq/

Dutch Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/latn-nl-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/eurlreq/

Georgian Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/geor-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/eurlreq/

Modern Greek Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/grek-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/eurlreq/

Hungarian Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/latn-hu-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/eurlreq/

Bengali Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/beng-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/iip/

Devanagari Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/deva-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/iip/

Gurmukhi Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/guru-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/iip/

Gujarati Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/gujr-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/iip/

Tamil Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/taml-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/iip/

Japanese Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/jpan-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/jlreq/

Inuktitut & Cree Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/cans-iu-cr-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/amlreq/

Cherokee Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/cher-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/amlreq/

Lao Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/laoo-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/sealreq/

Khmer Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/khmr-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/sealreq/

Javanese Script Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/java-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/sealreq/

Thai Script Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/thai-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/sealreq/

Mongolian Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/mong-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/mlreq/

Tibetan Gap Analysis
https://www.w3.org/TR/tibt-gap/
https://github.com/w3c/tlreq/

The Internationalization Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Rules for Simple Placement of Japanese Ruby. This document provides a simple set of rules for placement of ruby text in Japanese typography that can be used as a minimum baseline for implementers and specification writers. It was developed by the JLReq (Japanese Layout) Task Force as a companion to Requirements for Japanese Text Layout 日本語組版処理の要件（日本語版）.

Ruby is the name given to the small annotations in Japanese content that are rendered alongside base text, usually to provide a pronunciation guide, but sometimes to provide other information.

French

Marquer du texte sans langue (Tagging text with no language)

Création de pages HTML en arabe, hébreu et autres scripts de droite à gauche (Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts)

Tri des options de sélection (Sorting select options)

Italian

Etichettatura del testo senza lingua (Tagging text with no language)

Tipi di dichiarazione linguistica (Types of language declaration)

Cambiare una pagina HTML in Unicode (Changing an HTML page to Unicode)

Spanish

Etiquetado de texto sin idioma (Tagging text with no language)

Tipos de declaración de idioma (Types of language declaration)

Creación de páginas HTML en árabe, hebreo y otros scripts de derecha a izquierda (Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts)

These articles were translated thanks to Ibidem Translations.

If you are linking to headings and figures for a page that will be translated into another language, or for a multilingual page, this article looks at things you need to bear in mind and provides markup templates that will be helpful.

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