Monday, March 10th 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm<\/p>\n
Jon Wiley<\/a> – Google<\/p>\n Why? Does internationalization = translation?? NO Localization is more than translation. – involves local content for a particular area – legal compliance – marketing – keyboards – currency formats – date formats – cultural appropriateness<\/p>\n Character Encoding: Careful wen using markup characters (less than greater than) Tell the browser: Find content in the right language. lang and xml:lang attribute on html element to clarify language Text direction: Dir attribute in html – dir=”rtl” <p> – there is a CSS attribute but best not to use.<\/p>\n Text expansion: Tools: Monday, March 10th 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Jon Wiley – Google Why? Why does Google have ~117 images for search? Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make is UNIVERSALLY available. Does internationalization = translation?? NO Internationalization is the design of the product for many different areas (i18n = internationalization). Localization is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techory.com\/sxsw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Why does Google have ~117 images for search?
\nGoogle’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make is UNIVERSALLY available.<\/p>\n
\nInternationalization is the design of the product for many different areas (i18n = internationalization).
\nLocalization is the act of taking your product (which you have already internationalized) and turning it into something appropriate for your particular market.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>It was easy once when there was just ASCII – many others came around but eventually everything came into Unicode.
\nSpecifically want to use UTF-8 (8bit unicode).
\nWhy use?
\nIt is compatible with legacy ASCII content – makes ASCII a subset of UTF-8
\nModern OS’s support it (not all platforms\/browsers support ALL unicode)
\nHas all the characters you need
\nYou can present a mix of scripts at once
\nSmaller than UTF-16 for most content – uses smaller bytes and could take up less space.<\/p>\n
\nwhen you need hard to see characters (\u00a0)<\/p>\n
\nin your content type declaration in response header (browsers give higher priority to ct)
\nmeta element
\nexternal CSS<\/p>\n
\nBe sure to serve content in the correct language.<\/p>\n
\nmeta element in the doc header
\ncontent language in response header<\/p>\n
\nLTR = left to right text
\nRTL = right to left text
\nbidi = bi-directional text
\nHow does this work? It is going to be in logical order.
\nMarkup is LTR. Numbers are LTR. Spaces and punctuation are neutral – they take on the characteristics of the words around them.<\/p>\n
\nEnglish is a compact language (compared to other languages)
\nsmall words can expand 200-300% in other language. This is usually not good, especially in menus etc where they could break things in other languages. Rule of thumb is =40%.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Google translation service (http:\/\/translate.google.com<\/a>) – good for a quick check to test a site – don’t use for production output.
\nCSS Janus – script for flipping CSS-based layouts – table layouts don’t have this problem – not a total solution (http:\/\/cssjaus.commoner.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"