This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Internationalization.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
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2005-02-15
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Architectural Specification building on
Unicode to provide authors of
specifications, software developers, and
content developers with a common reference
for interoperable text handling on the
World Wide Web.
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2001-05-31
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"Ruby" are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification defines markup for ruby, in the form of an XHTML module.
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Group Notes
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2009-09-08
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Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
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2007-05-16
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This document contains guidelines on the use of the Unicode Standard in conjunction with markup languages such as XML.
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2007-04-12
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Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS to create pages for languages that use bidirectional text, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
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2006-01-31
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Analyzes potential problems with the use of MathML for the presentation of mathematics in the notations customarily used with Arabic, and related languages.
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Drafts
Below are draft documents:
other Working Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Other Working Drafts
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2011-11-29
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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.
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2011-10-04
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This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules.
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2011-06-30
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The set of CSS properties proposed in this
document can be used in combination with the ruby elements of HTML to
produce the stylistic effects needed to display ruby text appropriately
relative to base text.
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2011-05-24
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This CSS level 3 module describes how lists are styled.
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2010-03-04
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This document contains proposals for new
features to be added to HTML to support bidirectional text in languages such
as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Thaana, Urdu, etc.
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2004-05-09
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Provides HTML/XHTML authors with best practice for developing internationalized HTML supported by CSS, focusing specifically on advice about character sets, encodings, and other character-specific matters.
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2002-05-15
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Describes the positioning in the block progression direction both
of elements and text within lines and of the lines themselves. This
positioning is often relative to a baseline. It also describes special
features for formatting of first lines and drop caps.
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Resources Developed Outside W3C
The following resources are relevant to this area of
work.
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (RFC
3987)
RFC
3987: Internationalization Resource Identifiers
defines a new protocol element, the Internationalized
Resource Identifier (IRI), as a complement to the Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI).
Internet-Draft: BCP 47 (RFC 4646 and RFC 4647)
IETF Best Current Practice 47 describes language tags and language tag matching for cases where it is desirable to indicate the language used in an information object. Comprises two IETF RFCs: RFC 4646 Tags for Identifying Languages and RFC 4647 Matching of Language Tags. The two editors of this best practice participate in the Internationalization Working Group.
Date and Time Formats
Date and Time Formats is a W3C Member Submission that defines a profile of ISO 8601, the International Standard for the representation of dates and times, likely to satisfy most requirements.
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