Languages and the Web

Languages and the Web

References

W3C

Language

• Working with language in HTML (tutorial)

• Declaring language in HTML

• Language tags in HTML and XML

• Choosing a language tag

• Two-letter or three-letter ISO language codes

• Why use the language attribute?

• Setting language preferences in a browser

• xml:lang in XML document schemas

• Tagging text with no language

• Indicating the language of a link destination

• HTTP headers, meta elements and language information

• Accept-Language used for locale setting

• Styling using language attributes

Text direction

• Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts (tutorial)

• Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm basics

• Structural markup and right-to-left text in HTML

• Inline markup and bidirectional text in HTML

• How to use Unicode controls for bidi text

• Unicode controls vs. markup for bidi support

• CSS vs. markup for bidi support

• Bidi space loss

• Visual vs. logical ordering of text

• Creating SVG Tiny Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and other Right-to-left scripts

• Styling vertical Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian text

• Script direction and languages

Styling & layout

• CSS3 and International Text

• Text size in translation

• Background images that support localization

• Styling using language attributes

• Approaches to full justification

See Articles, best practices & tutorials for other W3C Internationalization Activity resources.