Have you ever resized your browser and seen text reflow? Behind that simple effect lies a world of linguistic and technical complexity: youtu.be/Pk2S2VXVFuI

FOR REVIEW: Number, currency, and unit formatting w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/... See the blog post at www.w3.org/blog/Interna...

New translation into Chinese: 字符编码：核心概念 (Character encodings: Essential concepts) www.w3.org/Internationa...

New translations into Chinese: 在HTML中声明语言 (Declaring language in HTML) www.w3.org/Internationa... 使用b和i元素 (Using b and i elements) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing these translations.

New translations into Chinese: 如何用Unicode控制字符处理双向文本 (How to use Unicode controls for bidi text) www.w3.org/Internationa... HTML中的字节顺序标记（BOM） (The byte-order mark (BOM) in HTML) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing these translations.

New translations into Chinese: 处理RTL文字的源代码和代码示例 (Working with source code markup and code examples for RTL scripts) www.w3.org/Internationa... 双向文本空格丢失 (Bidi space loss) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing these translations.

FOR REVIEW: Guide to the ECMAScript Internationalization API The article Guide to the ECMAScript Internationalization API is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Friday 26 December. w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/... See the blog post at www.w3.org/blog/Interna...

FOR REVIEW: Address formats around the world The article Address formats around the world is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Friday 5 December. w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/... See the blog post at www.w3.org/blog/Interna...

New translation into Chinese: HTML中的行内标记和双向文本 (Inline markup and bidirectional text in HTML) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: HTML中的结构标记和从右向左的文本 (Structural markup and right-to-left text in HTML) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: CSS与标记语言对双向文本的支持 (CSS vs. markup for bidi support) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: 对选项菜单进行排序 (Sorting select options) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: 文本的视觉顺序与逻辑顺序 (Visual vs. logical ordering of text) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: Unicode双向文本算法基础 (Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm basics) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: 在.htaccess中设置charset信息 (Setting charset information in .htaccess) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: 什么是行间注？ (What is ruby?) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: Web国际化快速提示 (Internationalization Quick Tips for the Web) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translations into Italian: La dimensione del testo nella traduzione (Text size in translation) www.w3.org/Internationa... Siti web internazionali e multilingue (International & multilingual web sites) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Alessia Bosio for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: Apache MultiViews语言协商设置 (Apache MultiViews language negotiation set up) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Persian: چرا از ویژگی زبان استفاده کنیم؟ (Why use the language attribute?) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Goudarz Jafari for providing this translation!

New translation into Italian: Localizzazione vs. Internazionalizzazione (Localization vs. Internationalization) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Alessia Bosio for providing this translation.

New translation into Italian: Siti Web Monolingue vs Multilingue (Monolingual vs. multilingual Web sites) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Alessia Bosio for providing this translation.

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Greek case conversion WebKit now supports Greek specific behaviours for text-transform: uppercase: - words that are all uppercase lose tonos - for diphthongs with tonos on the first character tonos is removed but a dialytika is added above the second character in the diphthong

QUESTION for UI experts in RTL and vertical scripts. Should touch-action support logical directions? See the discussion at github.com/w3c/alreq/is...

WEB I18N GAP PROGRESS: Support for extra spacing between Chinese/Japanese and Western text Safari 18.4 supports text-autospace:ideograph-alpha ideograph-numeric;

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Writing-modes sideways values not implemented” With the release of Safari 18.4 all major desktop browsers now interoperably support the sideways-lr and sideways-rl values of CSS writing-mode.

NEW ARTICLE: How to make list markers stand upright in vertical text www.w3.org/Internationa...

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Glyphs for characters in other blocks incorrectly falling back to system font” Adlam and N'Ko text is now rendered in all major browsers without the Arabic punctuation marks being displayed in a different font. See www.w3.org/TR/adlm-gap/...

The article "Typographic character units in complex scripts" was updated to reflect changes in grapheme cluster boundaries related to conjuncts in various scripts. www.w3.org/Internationa...

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Grapheme clusters fail to represent syllabic conjuncts in Bengali, Devanagari, and Gujarati” Orthographic syllables involving virama now treated as a single grapheme cluster for Bengali, Devanagari, and Gujarati in the latest versions of the Gecko, Blink, and Webkit engines.

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “:dir lacks wide support” When designing/adapting style sheets for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Dhivehi, Fula (Adlam)... the :dir() pseudo-class allows content authors to style RTL text in the same style sheet as other languages, significantly improving convenience.

New translation into Chinese: 世界各地的人名 (Personal names around the world) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

FOR REVIEW: Working with Time and Time Zones An updated version of Working with Time and Time Zones is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Thursday, 23 January 2025. www.w3.org/TR/timezone/ See the blog post at www.w3.org/blog/Interna...

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Mongolian characters incorrectly rotated and not joining in vertical text It is now possible to view vertical Mongolian text with joined up letters in the expected orientation, by default, in WebKit browsers. This brings it in line with Blink and Gecko engines.

New translation into Chinese: 断行的方法 (Approaches to line breaking) www.w3.org/Internationa... Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.