One other thing I forgot to emotion, if you are supporting East or West
African languages, or Vietnamese then Unicode normalisation support will
be critical.
Andrew
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Andrew Cunningham
Research and Development Coordinator (Vicnet)
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne VIC 30
A lot of Richard's material and material by other members of the W3C
Core I18N WG are quite useful. Have a look at
http://www.w3.org/International/
Some additional thoughts. You're approach really depends on the number
of languages you need to support and the diversity of languages and
writin
On 11/1/07, Andrew Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm asking for any gems of wisdom - links or first hand advice, mostly
> technical, but anything that deals with the pitfalls in building
> arabic websites would be great.
I found Richard Ishida's @media07 presentation, "Designing for
Intern
Certain Islamic cultures have restrictions on images of any living thing -
not just people.
There are also differences of opinion as to whether this applies to just
drawings or to photographs too.
See:
http://www.muhajabah.com/pictures-fiqh.htm
Whilst some things of these may be unoffensive wh
Another issue is graphics... if you've got any stock images of people
like some sites do, you have to think about what certain cultures
might think about how people dress.
There are also sensitivities in some cultures about photos of people who
have passed away.
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Added to all the other advice already given, I'd also suggest that web
typography be tailored for each language. How some of the tags render
may need to be changed from language to language (not just font
families, styles, weight, size and leading). Consider how the following
tags should render
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On Behalf Of Andrew Harris
Sent: Friday, 2 November 2007 10:46 AM
To: WSG
Subject: [WSG] multilingual website advice
Hi all,
I've been asked to work on a multilingual website - including rtl
scripts.
I've done bits and pieces before, but always other languages in
pr
On 11/1/07, Andrew Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been asked to work on a multilingual website - including rtl scripts.
> I've done bits and pieces before, but always other languages in
> predominantly english websites.
>
> Although I see the problems as mainly technical, I'm ge
Hi all,
I've been asked to work on a multilingual website - including rtl scripts.
I've done bits and pieces before, but always other languages in
predominantly english websites.
Although I see the problems as mainly technical, I'm getting vibes
from others in the team about some mysterious 'cultu
