RE: [WSG] Less than and greater than in UTF-8 encoded HTML

2007-11-27 Thread Richard Ishida
the HTML text [2] paste some HTML into the top left field and in the top right field it will convert all and characters to entities - very useful for preparing examples of code in HTML. RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Ishida
they'll figure it out. Thanks all for the help. RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ -Original

[WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
/form Does anyone know a better way to do this? I was hoping to avoid using JavaScript, if possible. Cheers, RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Aha! Yes, that seems to do the job, if I set an appropriate width. Many thanks, Chris. What a great list this is. RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Hmm. On the other hand.. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari (Win), but not in IE :(( Grr. RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
; /* for IE */ cursor: pointer; max-width: 100%; } IE still truncates the French, rather than wrapping it. I will probably have to resort to using br /, but that's far from ideal for boxes with some flex to them or when users may have different fonts etc. RI Richard Ishida

RE: [WSG] Triggering POSTs with links?

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Ishida
Thanks, Thierry. Yes, I'm beginning to conclude that that's the only thing that I can do, too. It doesn't really solve the problem though, when you have flexibility wrt box size or fonts, accessibility zooming, etc. Oh well... Glad you enjoyed the talk. Cheers, RI Richard Ishida

RE: [WSG] Web page translations

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Ishida
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RE: [WSG] Websites in Different Languages

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Ishida
See the note I just sent to Tom Livingston entitled '[WSG] Web page translations' RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com

RE: [WSG] Article: MIME and Content Negotiation

2006-01-18 Thread Richard Ishida
-char-enc/en/slides/Slide0060.html ) [4] You will need to ensure that all other character references are numeric in nature. It would be good to explain the reason you say this. hth RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org

RE: [WSG] Bi-directional text

2005-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
to the head element in this case. Hope that helps, RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] Character encoding mismatch

2005-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
move. Also, you may find the following useful wrt using character references: Using character entities and NCRs http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes Hope that helps, RI Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org

[WSG] New W3C article: Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8

2005-08-27 Thread Richard Ishida
The W3C GEO Working Group has published the FAQ-based article, which I think may be of use to people on this list: Changing (X)HTML page encoding to UTF-8 http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-changing-encoding by Richard Ishida, W3C Aimed at newcomers

RE: [WSG] IE problem with ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1?

2005-08-26 Thread Richard Ishida
) You should at least check that you do declare the encoding in a meta tag, and that it is correct. For more info see http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ HTH, RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization

[WSG] Internationalization Articles Published

2005-08-15 Thread Richard Ishida
/description [4] http://www.w3.org/International/ RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog

RE: [WSG] Encoding, charsets and entities...

2005-06-29 Thread Richard Ishida
Hi Roberto, I think this may answer many of your questions: http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http

RE: [WSG] Character encoding

2005-06-10 Thread Richard Ishida
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RE: [WSG] multi-lingual

2005-05-30 Thread Richard Ishida
are currently dealing with. You can indicate that the document as a whole has two primary languages using the HTTP header. Meta elements may also serve the same purpose, but it is not clear to what extent they are used by anyone. Hope that helps, RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info

RE: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-30 Thread Richard Ishida
also tend to group together all variants on p, eg. p#first, p.second, even div#third p. hth, RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog

RE: [WSG] mutli language websites

2005-05-17 Thread Richard Ishida
Hello Sam, Here are some thoughts I have on the topic... Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ -Original Message- From

RE: [WSG] killing the object tag

2005-04-25 Thread Richard Ishida
What do you guys think of this? Is their somewhere I can submit this too? From http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml2-20040722/ Public discussion may take place on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (archive). To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word subscribe in the subject line. hth RI

RE: [WSG] UTF-8 (was: Quirks mode vs Standards mode)

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Ishida
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Jackson Sent: 19 April 2005 17:12 ... I try to avoid entities with exception for ' You're right. If you're using UTF-8 you only need to encode the characters that are special in HTML/XHTML/XML (, and ). Using

RE: OT Re: [WSG] UTF-8

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Ishida
that the system recognised the Unicode encoding :-) RI PS: You may find my Unicode converter a useful play tool for this kind of thing. It's a bit rough and ready, but it's useful. http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/conversion.en.html Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http

RE: [WSG] UTF-8 (was: Quirks mode vs Standards mode)

2005-04-19 Thread Richard Ishida
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Falck Sent: 19 April 2005 18:49 ... Does anyone have a good quick reference as to which characters are good on UTF-8? How about a faster or easier way to type them in? FWIW you may find this useful for Latin characters:

RE: [WSG] Quirks mode vs Standards mode

2005-04-17 Thread Richard Ishida
/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] I18n - Traditional Simplified Chinese in an English web site

2005-04-13 Thread Richard Ishida
on where possible. The Web will never move forward if we throw up our hands and always design to the lowest common denominator. But that's another topic, and not one for which there's an easy answer... RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C

RE: [WSG] I18n - Traditional Simplified Chinese in an English web site

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Ishida
that it is unnecessary. FURTHER READING See also upcoming articles on: - How to use the link element - How to deal with pull-downs, where there isn't room to list all alternatives directly in the page. Hope that helps. RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http

RE: [WSG] style attribute depreciated in xhtml 1.1?

2005-03-16 Thread Richard Ishida
Semantic markup like this also makes it much easier to change your mind as you evolve the styling, and to use alternative conventions for localized pages where appropriate. RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http

RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

2005-02-25 Thread Richard Ishida
Oops. Of course that URI should have read: http://www.w3.org/International/technique-index#language From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Sent: 25 February 2005 08:30 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

2005-02-22 Thread Richard Ishida
. RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

2005-02-21 Thread Richard Ishida
these pickers - designed for non-native user input. (Note that the Latin diacritics picker probably includes most of what's needed for Vietnamese.) http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http

RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

2005-02-21 Thread Richard Ishida
Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

2005-02-21 Thread Richard Ishida
authoring applications http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-setting-encoding-in-application s Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog

RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

2005-02-20 Thread Richard Ishida
) { print $line; } } === HTH RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog

RE: [WSG] Other character sets/languages

2005-02-20 Thread Richard Ishida
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gene Falck Sent: 20 February 2005 04:26 In this matter, I am also wondering where using a meta tag specifying iso-8859-1 fits in terms of following the standards. I notice many people do this and I gather the actual coding

RE: [WSG] Validating unicode files

2004-12-13 Thread Richard Ishida
let me know if there's a way to improve our articles, or add useful new ones.) Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog

RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please

2004-11-23 Thread Richard Ishida
declaration. Then it should work. RI [1] http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fira.com.tr%2Fy%2Fcharset=utf -8doctype=Inlineverbose=1 [2] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-setting-encoding-in-application s Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People

RE: [WSG] turkish text - can you assign a language or encoding to a div?

2004-11-23 Thread Richard Ishida
, etc. Character encoding indicates what characters should be interpreted from the bytes in the code. Note also that there can only be a single encoding for a page. Hope that helps, RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization

RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
Please change html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en to html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=tr lang=tr Have you considered using UTF-8, rather than charset=iso-8859-9 ? Hope that helps, RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org

RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
Interesting. Which validator are you using? By rights, it shouldn't validate as is, since XML requires an XML declaration (ie. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-9?) when not using utf-8. Did you note the comment about lang attributes? RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http

RE: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
way we can improve the material). Cheers, RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-character.html (still early draft!) Cheers, RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog

RE: [WSG] Another body tag question ... [Use of dir]

2004-11-14 Thread Richard Ishida
/questions/qa-bidi-css-markup RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [WSG] International Pages Check

2004-11-14 Thread Richard Ishida
/O-charset Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Publication blog: http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED