Hands-On Tips For Web Globalization

The W3C Internationalization Working Group continues to add valuable resources for those who need hands-on information regarding Web globalization. Need to learn more about internationalized domain names, bidirectional text display, or multilingual style sheets? This is a good place to start. It can be dense at times and challenging to navigate, but there’s a lot of solid information there.

I found this Web page particularly interesting. It contains demonstration Web pages to illustrate key issues and techniques. For example, the screen shot below is from a page in which you can test your Web browser’s ability to display and respond to internationalized domain names.

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John Yunker
John Yunker

John is co-founder of Byte Level Research and author of Think Outside the Country as well as 19 editions of The Web Globalization Report Card.

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