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W3C Internationalisation Guidelines

Via Phil Ringnalda, the W3C have published three useful articles on HTML internationalisation techniques. In classic W3C style, the boilerplate and verbiage at the start of the documents threatens to overwhelm the actual content. Here’s a tip: jump straight to chapter 2, which is normally where the interesting stuff starts. Here are the ammended links:

• Choosing a page encoding
• Declaring the language of content
• Handling Bidirectional Text