ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the people who manage domain names, yesterday announced that as of Monday 15th internet domain names would go international.
What this means is that rather than websites being forced to use Roman characters such as .com, .org, .net etc at the end of their domain, countries can [...]
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Domain names go international
Posted in ICANN, i18n, internationalization, w3cPlanet on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Beijing 2008 Part One: accessibility
Posted in RNIB, accessibility, article, china, i18n, internationalisation, w3cPlanet on July 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just published an article in the RNIB Web Access Centre called Beijing 2008 Part1: accessibility. It gives a snapshot overview of where the Beijing 2008 website is currently at in terms of accessibility and suggests steps for improvement.
This is the first or three articles about the current Beijing 2008 site. Next up in the [...]
Planet i18n launched
Posted in blogs, internationalisation, w3cPlanet on June 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is exciting.
Planet i18n has just been launched by the I18n Core Working Group. It gathers together posts from various blogs that talk about internationalization (i18n). While it is hosted by the W3C Internationalization Activity, the content of the individual entries represent only the opinion of their respective authors and does not reflect the position [...]

