#internationalisation (44 links)
- CJK Typesetting in 2025: Challenges, Workflows, and Best Practices asianabsolute.co.uk
- Should we NEVER use non-logical properties? frontendmasters.com
- Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers shopify.engineering
A high density, high value guide.
Really a useful comparison of LinguiJS and react-i18next.
Good birds-eye view.
- Arabic & Persian Layout Requirements W3C Editor's Draft w3c.github.io
This document describes requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Arabic script when they are used by Web standards and technologies, such as HTML, CSS, Mobile Web, Digital Publications, and Unicode.
- Right-to-left Styling rtlstyling.com
- aria-label Does Not Translate adrianroselli.com
5 Comments In response to Claire Brotherton. Try this: <a href="https://twitter.com/abrightclearweb"> <span class="fa fa-twitter"></span> <span…
- Language Specific Quotation Marks witch.westfalen.de
This page shows how language specific quotation marks are set with CSS andthe unicodecharacters for the typographical quotes used in several languages. The…
<input type="number"> will open a numeric software keyboard on modern mobile operating systems. Not every user can input decimal numbers into this convenient…
- Notes on `lang` codepen.io
There’s lots going on with lang , the global attribute that defines the language an element contains . Information about it is scattered, so I’ve collected here…
- The hreflang Tags Generator by @Aleyda aleydasolis.com
Generate the hreflang tags for your multi-language or multi-country site easily and fast! This tool wil help you to generate the hreflang tags patterns to use…
- Expansion and contraction factors in translation | Andiamo! The Language Professionals andiamo.co.uk
Did you know that when English text is translated into Spanish, it expands by approximately 25%? Or that when the same piece of text is translated into Finnish,…
- Why Japanese Web Design Is So… Different randomwire.com
In the mind’s eye of many people Japan is a land of tranquil Zen gardens , serene temples, and exquisite tea ceremonies. Both traditional and contemporary…
- Localisation and Translation on the Web bitsofco.de
Coming from the English-speaking world, it can be easy to maintain the bubble that is the English-speaking World Wide Web. But in fact, more than half of web…
- Right-To-Left Development In Mobile Design – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
Right-To-Left Development In Mobile Design
- Mastering International Opt-In Requirements litmus.com
March 23, 2016 Building and growing a database of subscribers is one of the primary objectives of email marketers. And while marketing technology has allowed…
- Language subtag lookup app r12a.github.io
r12a >> apps >> Language subtag lookup blog docs maps apps photos Find a subtag by searching for text in the descriptions Look up one or more subtags Check…
- Flags are not languages – A blog about designing global user experiences: beyond language, location & culture. flagsarenotlanguages.com
What if a user visiting an e-commerce site wants to change the language of the site? Or the currency? Thinking about currency, the main reason a user would…
- Same same…but different medium.com
F or years it seems we’ve felt comfortable freely interchanging the words ‘internet’ and ‘web’. Technically speaking, the internet is a global system of…
- World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web (Part 1) – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” said Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in the famous scene in which Hamlet…
- Supporting Right-to-Left Languages developer.apple.com
- Ask HN: How to promote non-english websites/content? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Lack of clarity about SEO rules in this regard. Eg: Will Spanish content rank higher than english one if I search in spanish? Or will google do a combined…
- The Web, Worldwide webworldwide.io
The web isn't experienced the same way everywhere. Select a country to learn more. Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Angola Antigua and Barbuda…
- Chinese to Chinese Conversion cjk.org
The Pitfalls and Complexities of Chinese to Chinese Conversion 汉字简繁转换的复杂性和陷阱 漢字簡繁轉換的複雜性和陷阱 Jack Halpern President, The CJK Dictionary Institute Jouni Kerman…
- Search by Translation ohchr.org
In this section UDHR Home Research guides and resources UDHR exhibit Contact us Translation Translation Source Abkhaz Office of the High Commissioner for Human…
- FRANK'S COMPULSIVE GUIDE TO POSTAL ADDRESSES columbia.edu
Effective Addressing for International Mail Author: Frank da Cruz The Kermit Project - Columbia University New York City [email protected] Last Update: Fri Sep…
- On Use of the Lang Attribute adrianroselli.com
9 Comments In response to Jake Wilson . Jake, was there a regex example in your comment? I am not seeing one. aroselli ; 23 January 2015 at 4:33 pm . Permalink…
- Twelve Commandments Of Software Localization – Smashing Magazine smashingmagazine.com
You’ve presented the new website and everyone loves it. The design is crisp, the code is bug-free, and you’re ready to release. Then someone asks, “Does it work…
- Languages and Chinese characters on the web growingwiththeweb.com
The lang attribute lang is an optional HTML attribute that can be used on any element to explicitly indicate the language of the contents using an IETF language…
- Languages and Chinese characters on the web growingwiththeweb.com
The lang attribute lang is an optional HTML attribute that can be used on any element to explicitly indicate the language of the contents using an IETF language…
- Transifex transifex.net
An open service allowing people to collaboratively translate software, documentation and other types of projects.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Working with multi-regional websites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
This looks like it could be most handy. "If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site. We encountered these problems ourselves and needed a tool to keep things organized - so we built String."
- UTF-8: The Secret of Character Encoding - HTML Purifier htmlpurifier.org
- Digital Web Magazine - It's in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website digital-web.com
When it comes to creating a successful international website, language isn’t everything. Many other factors come into play, all of which require knowledge about your target market.