THE SHIFTING SANDS OF WEB GLOBALIZATION

Given the dynamic nature of the Internet in general, and web globalization in particular, you’ll need to keep an eye on the Internet standards groups and where they’re headed. Fortunately, everything you need is within easy reach. Here are a few key organizations:

Unicode Consortium: www.unicode.org

World Wide Web Consortium: www.w3c.org/international

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority: www.iana.org

Internet Engineering Task Force: www.ietf.org

Although everything is changing quickly, now that you have a solid grounding in the concepts, you can adapt to the changes just as quickly. Using what you now know about language codes and character sets, take some time to explore the localized ...

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