Learn to internationalize

This page aims to connect you quickly with learning resources that guide you in applying internationalization to your content development, implementation, and so on.

Techniques for content developers

The techniques page (second choice in the links below) is particularly useful. It presents you with a series of task-based do's and don'ts, accompanied by links to useful resources on the W3C Internationalization site and elsewhere. Following that are a set of 'tutorials', ie. pages that point to other resources to cover a particular topic.

• Getting started with internationalization
• HTML & CSS authoring techniques
• Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS
• Working with language in HTML
• Creating HTML Pages in Arabic & Hebrew
  and Other Right-to-left Scripts
• List of articles

Developer checklist

Specification developers can use the following techniques to do a self-review. The checklist lists do's and don'ts and also points to explanations, example, and the like.

• Spec review checklist

Language enablement

The W3C is gathering information about issues that users experience around the world when they try to use the Web, especially related to typography and layout. The following links take you to pages that provide useful information.

• Language enablement index
• Type samples
• Language matrix
• More text layout resources