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For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n">Internationalization</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webarch/considerations">Protocol and Meta Format Considerations</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/xml/core">XML Essentials</a>.</p>
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<a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
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been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
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<a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
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<a href="../history/its" title="Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0 publication history">2007-04-03</a>
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<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/">Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=its">translations</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/International/its/itstagset/its-errata.html">errata</a>
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<p>A set of recommendations for data
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categories that can be mapped to elements
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and attributes to support the
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internationalization and localization of
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marked up content. Implementations are
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provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG,
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and for existing vocabularies like XHTML,
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DocBook and OpenDocument.</p>
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<a href="../history/charmod" title="Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals publication history">2005-02-15</a>
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<a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/">Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=charmod">translations</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/charmod-fundamentals-errata.html">errata</a>
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<p>Architectural Specification building on
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Unicode to provide authors of
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specifications, software developers, and
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content developers with a common reference
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for interoperable text handling on the
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World Wide Web.</p>
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<a href="../history/timezone" title="Working with Time Zones publication history">2011-07-05</a>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/NOTE-timezone-20110705/">Working with Time Zones</a>
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This document contains guidelines and best
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-charreq-20090915/">Requirements for String Identity Matching and String Indexing</a>
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<p>This document was written as the first step towards a character model for W3C specifications. The views expressed have evolved over the intervening years, and the document was re-published purely to preserve the historical record.</p>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-leiri-20081103/">Legacy extended IRIs for XML resource identification</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=leiri">translations</a>
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<p>For historic reasons, some formats have allowed variants of IRIs that are somewhat less restricted in syntax, for example XML system identifiers and W3C XML Schema anyURIs. This document provides a definition and a name (Legacy Extended IRI or LEIRI) for these variants for easy reference.
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<a href="../history/xml-i18n-bp" title="Best Practices for XML Internationalization publication history">2008-02-13</a>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/NOTE-xml-i18n-bp-20080213/">Best Practices for XML Internationalization</a>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/03/Translations/byTechnology?technology=xml-i18n-bp">translations</a>
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<p>Provides a set of guidelines for
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developing XML documents and schemas that
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are properly internationalized, aimed at
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both developers of XML applications and
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authors of XML content.</p>
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<a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/">Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages</a>
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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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<p>Below are draft documents:
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<a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsCR">Candidate Recommendations</a>, <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
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Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
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process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
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become obsolete specifications.</p>
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<a href="../history/charmod-resid" title="Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers publication history">2004-11-22</a>
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<a title="status is CR" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-charmod-resid-20041122/">Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Resource Identifiers</a>
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<p>Architectural Specification providing authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for the use of resource identifiers building on Unicode.</p>
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<a href="../history/ltli" title="Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web publication history">2006-06-12</a>
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<a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ltli-20060612/">Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the World Wide Web</a>
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Describes mechanisms based on BCP 47 for identifying or selecting the language of content or locale preferences used to process information using Web technologies.
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<a href="../history/charmod-norm" title="Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization publication history">2005-10-27</a>
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<a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-charmod-norm-20051027/">Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization</a>
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<p>Architectural Specification providing authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for normalization and string identity matching to improve interoperable text handling on the World Wide Web.
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<p>These specifications have either been superseded by others,
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or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
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<a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-itsreq-20060518/">Internationalization and Localization Markup Requirements</a>
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When creating schemas (XML Schema, DTD, etc.), it is important to include constructs that meet the needs of content authors dealing with international audiences, and address the needs of the localization community. This document provides a list of key requirements to achieve such a goal.
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<h2>Resources Developed Outside W3C</h2>
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<p>The following resources are relevant to this area of
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<h3>Internationalized Resource Identifiers (RFC
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3987)</h3>
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<p>
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<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt">RFC
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3987: Internationalization Resource Identifiers</a>
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defines a new protocol element, the Internationalized
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Resource Identifier (IRI), as a complement to the Uniform
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Resource Identifier (URI).</p>
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<h3>Internet-Draft: BCP 47 (RFC 4646 and RFC 4647)</h3>
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<a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt">IETF Best Current Practice 47</a> 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. </p>
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<h3>Date and Time Formats</h3>
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-datetime-19980827">Date and Time Formats</a> 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.</p>
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