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Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "Document character set" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-doc-charset]

Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "Setting charset information in .htaccess" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-htaccess-charset]

Richard Ishida gave a presentation entitled "Global Design: Characters, Language and More" at the @media 2008 Conference, London, UK, on 30 May, 2008. [search keys: talk-2008 talk-ishida ]

Richard Ishida gave a presentation entitled Designing International Web Pages: Some Practical Tips at the Open Road Conference, Melbourne, Australia, on 15 May, 2008, and at Web Standards Group (WSG) meetings in Melbourne and Sydney on 15th and 16th May. [search keys: talk-2008 talk-ishida ]

Richard Ishida and Felix Sasaki gave a tutorial entitled Producing XML that Works Internationally at the WWW2008 Conference, Beijing, China, on 21 April, 2008. [search keys: talk-2008 talk-ishida talk-sasaki]

A paragraph about Firefox support for IRIs was updated. For a detailed list of changes read the full post.

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Thanks to Gunnar Bittersmann the FAQ-based article "Character encodings for beginners" has now been translated into German (language negotiated). [search key: qa-what-is-encoding]

The Internationalization Core Working Group has published a Working Draft of Web Services Internationalization (WS-I18N). This document describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide internationalized and localized operations using locale and international preferences. These mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of development models for international usage.

Editors: Addison Phillips, Mary Trumble (until September 2005), Felix Sasaki [search keys: tr-ws-i18n]

Participants from four W3C Groups CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL Working Groups as part of the Japanese Layout Task Force published Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. This document 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. Japanese version is also available.

Editors: Toshi Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Anan. [search keys: tr-jlreq]

Article: This article provides guidelines for the migration of software and data to Unicode. It covers planning the migration, and design and implementation of Unicode-enabled software. A basic understanding of Unicode and the principles of character encoding is assumed.

By Norbert Lindenberg & Addison Phillips, Yahoo. [search key: article-unicode-migration]