Posted in internationalisation on Feb 27th, 2008
So what does happen if you’re an Arabic speaker and you naturally expect to be able to write a search query from right to left? You’re sort of stuck and have to work with writing from left to right. Not any more however if you’re a Google user. If you’re using a supported local interface [...]
Posted in internationalisation on Jan 31st, 2008
So what is character coding and why should you bother? Well the folk over at the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internationalization group can answer all that in a nutshell, or short article: Character coding for beginners. Whether you’re a content author, user, or anyone who is unsure about what a character encoding is then [...]
Posted in Accessibility, internationalisation on Jan 16th, 2008
In a couple of weeks I’ll be on the road speaking and attending a number of conferences taking me through to March. First up is the first ever Techshare India in New Delhi. Techshare is all about technology and accessibility (web, mobile, software, audio, Daisy…) and I’m really looking forward to learning more about what [...]
Posted in internationalisation on Oct 12th, 2007
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the people who manage domain names, yesterday announced that as of Monday 15th internet domain names would go international and allow top-level domains to be written in non Latin scripts. What this means is that rather than websites being forced to use Roman characters such as .com, [...]
Posted in internationalisation on Jul 8th, 2007
A while ago Webaim posted about Great accessibility blog roundup which listed various accessibility blogs that we have all referenced and fed off over the years. Inspired by this I thought I’d start compiling a list of i18n and global design blogs where I go for my daily fix. This is by no means a [...]
Posted in internationalisation on Jun 29th, 2007
This is exciting. Planet i18n has just been launched by the I18n Core Working Group. It gathers together posts from various blogs that talk about internationalization (i18n). While it is hosted by the W3C Internationalization Activity, the content of the individual entries represent only the opinion of their respective authors and does not reflect the [...]