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*March 2007 discussion (ongoing) of [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009000.html abbr title for non-English values]. Is <code><nowiki><abbr class="type" title="fax"> | *March 2007 discussion (ongoing) of [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2007-March/009000.html abbr title for non-English values]. Is <code><nowiki><abbr class="type" title="fax">Téléc</abbr></nowiki></code> acceptable? | ||
*[[genealogy-brainstorming#Gender|Gender values in Genealogy]] | *[[genealogy-brainstorming#Gender|Gender values in Genealogy]] | ||
Revision as of 00:18, 23 March 2007
Internationalization
(AKA internationalisation, i18n.)
What can we do, to make microformats more easily usable, by people who are not publishing in (US) English?
Background
- Internet and web standards in general use US English terms and spelling (ref: W3C, IETF) for elements, attributes, properties and values.
- e.g. (X)HTML is defined in US English (e.g "color", "center").
- However such standards also strongly advocate the support of character sets such as UTF-8 for broader/better support of international content.
Issues
- March 2007 discussion (ongoing) of abbr title for non-English values. Is
<abbr class="type" title="fax">Téléc</abbr>acceptable? - Gender values in Genealogy
Solutions
- For telephone numbers in hCard, use abbr and the ITU E.123 standard international format, for example:
<abbr class="tel" title="+44 1233 456 7890">01233 456 7890</abbr>