Sites

i18n: HTML Character Set Issues beyond HTML3.2 - English
URL: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

"Internationali[sz]ation" issues associated with HTML: a comprehensive practical guide by A. J. Flavell.

[ eng ]

A tutorial on character code issues - English
URL: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html

shown in filters: Publications

"This document tries to clarify the concepts of character repertoire, character code, and character encoding especially in the Internet context... ASCII, ISO 646, ISO 8859 (ISO Latin, especially ISO Latin 1), Windows character set, ISO 10646 (UCS), Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-7, MIME, and QP are used as examples." Part of the IT and communication free information site.

[ eng ]

Sample Pages for Various Character Sets - English
URL: http://vancouver-webpages.com/multilingual/

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

A demonstration of the multilingual capability of Web pages, including content negotiation and use of charset in MIME types.

[ eng ]

HTML Document Representation - English
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html

shown in filters: Publications

The Document Character Set. Character encodings. Choosing an encoding, and notes on specific encodings. Specifying the character encoding. Character references: numeric, character entity references. Undisplayable characters. A chapter in W3C Recommendation of 24 December 1999.

[ eng ]

Checklist for HTML character coding - English
URL: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/checklist

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

"The emphasis here is on clear recommendations - which can be rendered on an appropriate range of browsers if they have been properly configured - rather than on explaining too many exceptions and special-cases." A reference guide by Alan J. Flavell.

[ eng ]

Coverage of European languages by ISO Latin alphabets - English
URL: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/8859.html#I

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

A reference resource compiled by Jukka Korpela.

[ eng ]

HTML authoring in different languages - a link list - English
URL: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/languages.html

shown in filters: Ressources du Web

Links colected by Jukka Korpela.

[ eng ]

Techniques for multilingual Web sites - English, German, Swedish, Finnish
URL: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/multi/index-en.htm

shown in filters: Publications

What does a multilingual Web site mean. Linking to versions in different languages. Language negotiation mechanism: language negotiation as a protocol issue, language negotiation and settings in a server (with Apache as example), language settings in browsers.

[ eng ]

On the status of the Latin letter þorn and of its sorting order - English
URL: http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/thorn.html

shown in filters: Publications

An article (by Michael Everson and Baldur Sigurðsson) reviewing the history of alphabet from Phoenician times to argue that "thorn" should be counted as a separate independent letter (rather than a derived one) and sorted accordingly.

[ eng ]

W3C Internationalization and Localization - English
URL: http://www.w3.org/International/Overview.html

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

World-Wide Character Sets, Languages, and Writing Systems

[ eng ]

UNIMARC: Language Codes - English
URL: http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/p1996-1/appx_a.htm

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

[ ]

ISO 639 and IETF 1766 Standardised Language Codes - English
URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/language-codes.html

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

A listing of abbreviation codes to represent natural language names, as standardised by ISO (ISO 639) and IETF (RFC 1766) and registered with IANA. With alphabetical tags to enable fast search for a particular language or language code. Maintained by Jacob Palme.

[ eng ]

ISO 639 Language ID list - English
URL: http://www.wwp.brown.edu/encoding/training/ISO/iso639.html

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

[ ]

Internationalization / Localization - English
URL: http://www.w3.org/International/O-misc.html

Links to both onsite and offsite resources from the W3C.

[ eng ]

Language information and text direction - English
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html

shown in filters: Publications

The W3C Recommendation of 24 December 1999 (HTML 4.01 Specification) regarding two important issues that affect the internationalization of HTML: specifying the language (the lang attribute) and direction (the dir attribute) of text in a document.

[ eng ]

Reminder about 4 medieval English Latin characters - English
URL: http://www.evertype.com/standards/wynnyogh/

shown in filters: Publications

An article by Michael Everson, discussing the encoding standards for "hwair", "wynn", "ezh" and "yogh".

[ eng ]

Internationalization/localization: HTTP - English
URL: http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTTP.html

HTTP protocol issues related to use of various national languages. Part of W3C site.

[ eng ]

Language Code Lists - English
URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/code/lang2.htm

shown in filters: Guides et annuaires

[ ]