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<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>

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<li><a href="../nav/about" class="highlightLink">About internationalisation</a></li>
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<h2>Basic concepts &amp; definitions</h2>

<p>The following articles of general interest define key terminology.</p>
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<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 &amp; 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>
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<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>
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<li><p><a class="highlightLink"  href="/International/articles/definitions-time/">Time &amp; 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>
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<h2>Introductory articles</h2>

<p>Gentle introductions to various internationalization topics.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<h2>Tutorials</h2>
<p>Pages that point to other articles, to take you to the next level of understanding.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<h2>Taking it further</h2>
<p>To further develop your knowledge and encounter other topics we recommend the following.</p>
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<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>
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<p><a class="highlightLink"  href="/International/articlelist">Articles &amp; tutorials</a><br>
A list of all the articles available. This page also allows you to see which pages have been translated into another language.</p>
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