InterNationalization

Commonly abbreviated I18N.

Internationalization is the focus on making technology easy to use for different languages, scripts, and cultures.

• W3C Internationalization Activity

• opentag.com: XML Internationalization and Localization FAQ

HananCohen raised an issue BiDi in RSS? on the TechnologyAtHarvardLaw (RSS 2.0) forum, "No aggregator that I know of supports Bi-Directionality properly." and provided these RSS sample feeds in Hebrew:

• http://halemo.net/edoar/rss.xml

• http://www.israblog.co.il/update_rss.asp

• http://www.exego.net/forums/forumRSS.asp?f=2

• http://www.hagada.org.il/hagada/html/backend.php

• http://info.org.il/rss/rss.php

In a followup message, Hanan notes that the issue is not only "content-like" items (title, summary, content) but also in other text items, such as categories. He also points out potential solutions in the RSS format.

[ZhangYining] So is the URI, International Domain Names(IDN), there might not in mainstream that sites having Unicode domain names, but the trend is catching up, here is one example: 尔宁.cn/blog/ � 尔宁.cn (a Chinese domain name UTF-8 encoded)

[BillKearney] to see a sampling of languages being used in something like RSS, visit the stats page on Syndic8. There are a few listed as using Hebrew

Links

• Unicode BiDirectional test cases

CategoryArchitecture, CategoryModel, CategorySyntax