<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>Getting Started with the W3C I18n site</title> <meta name="description" content="Advice for getting the most from the W3C Internationalization Activity subsite." /> <script> var f = { } // AUTHORS should fill in these assignments: f.directory = 'getting-started'+'/'; // the path to this file, not including /International or the file name f.filename = 'index'; // the file name WITHOUT extensions f.authors = 'Richard Ishida, W3C'; // author(s) and affiliations f.previousauthors = ''; // as above f.modifiers = ''; // people making substantive changes, and their affiliation f.searchString = 'level2-getting-started'; // blog search string - usually the filename without extensions f.firstPubDate = '2009-03-12'; // date of the first publication of the document (after review) f.lastSubstUpdate = { date:'2022-05-03', time:'17:32'} // date and time of latest substantive changes to this document f.status = 'draft'; // should 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language!--> <script src="../javascript/doc-structure/sitepage-2022.js"> </script> <script src="../javascript/articletoc-2022.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../style/sitepage-2022.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="index-data/local.css"> <link rel="copyright" href="#copyright"> </head> <body> <header> <nav id="mainNavigation"></nav><script>document.getElementById('mainNavigation').innerHTML = mainNavigation</script> </header> <div class="content"> <h1>Getting Started with Internationalization</h1> <p>Resources for content authors who are new to Web internationalization, to help them get started with the topic.</p> <p>For a general introduction to internationalization and an overview of the work of the W3C Internationalization Activity, see:</p> <ul> <li><a href="../nav/about" class="highlightLink">About internationalisation</a></li> </ul> <section id="basics"> <h2>Basic concepts & definitions</h2> <p>The following articles of general interest define key terminology.</p> <ul> <li><p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/questions/qa-i18n">Localization vs. Internationalization</a><br>What do the terms 'internationalization' and 'localization' mean, and how are they related?</p></li> <li><p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/questions/qa-international-multilingual">International & multilingual Web sites</a><br>What is an 'international' or a 'multilingual' web site?</p></li> <li><a class="print highlightLink" href="/International/questions/qa-mono-multilingual">Monolingual vs. multilingual Web sites</a><br>What are the trade-offs between international sites that are monolingual vs. multilingual?</li> <li><p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/articles/definitions-characters/index">Character encodings: Essential concepts</a><br>A number of basic concepts needed to understand other articles that deal with characters and character encodings.</p></li> <li> <p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/uba-basics">Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm basics</a><br>What does the Unicode Bidirectional (bidi) Algorithm do, basically?</p> </li> <li><p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/articles/definitions-time/">Time & date: Essential concepts</a><br> A number of basic concepts needed to understand other articles that deal with time zones and other aspects of working with dates and times.</p></li> </ul> </section> <section id="introducing"> <h2>Introductory articles</h2> <p>Gentle introductions to various internationalization topics.</p> <ul> <li> <p> <a class="highlightLink" href="/International/quicktips/">Internationalization Quick Tips</a>. <br> Reminders of some key things to keep in mind when developing Web content.</p> </li> <li> <p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/getting-started/characters">Character sets and encodings</a>. <br> How to choose and work with character encodings and escapes, and other topics related to characters.</p> </li> <li> <p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/getting-started/language">Language on the Web</a>. <br> Declaring the human language of your content, and related topics, such as language-based styling, content negotiation, and user navigation.</p> </li> <li> <p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/questions/qa-personal-names">Personal names around the world</a>. <br> How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?</p> </li> </ul> </section> <section id="tutorials"> <h2>Tutorials</h2> <p>Pages that point to other articles, to take you to the next level of understanding.</p> <ul> <li> <p> <a class="highlightLink" href="/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/">Handling character encodings in HTML and CSS</a><br>Understand the essentials of authoring HTML and CSS related to characters and character encodings.</p> </li> <li> <p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/tutorials/language-decl/">Working with language in HTML</a><br> Understand the essentials of working with language information when authoring HTML and CSS.</p> </li> <li> <p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/">Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts</a><br> Understand the essentials of working with languages in right-to-left scripts and bidirectional text when authoring HTML and CSS.</p> </li> </ul> </section> <section id="further"> <h2>Taking it further</h2> <p>To further develop your knowledge and encounter other topics we recommend the following.</p> <ul> <li> <p> <a class="highlightLink" href="/International/i18n-drafts/techniques/authoring-html.en">Internationalization techniques: Authoring web pages</a><br>Resources on the W3C Internationalization Activity site and elsewhere that help you author HTML and CSS for internationalization.</p> </li> <li> <p><a class="highlightLink" href="/International/articlelist">Articles & tutorials</a><br> A list of all the articles available. 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