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Norbert.Eisinger@informatik.uni-muenchen.de, 2002-04-12

Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Programmier- und Modellierungssprachen,
Institut für Informatik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Hauptseminar "i18n and l10n", World Wide Web Internationalization and Localization (SS 2002)

Organisers: François Bry , Slim Abdennadher, and Norbert Eisinger in cooperation with
Michael Kraus (Keio University), and Jutta Haußer (University of Munich).

Table of Contents

• Organisation
• Subject of the Seminar
• Literature
• Timetable
• teamXweb
• Reports and Slides
• Glossary

Organisation

Hauptseminar:

"i18n and l10n" (World Wide Web Internationalization and Localization). 2 hours weekly

Coaches: François Bry, Slim Abdennadher, Norbert Eisinger

Time and Place: Monday 12h c.t. -- 14h, Room 1.31, Oettingenstraße 67.

For:

Hauptfach Informatik, Nebenfach Informatik, Hauptfach Computerlinguistik.

Registration:

During the kick-off session on 15 April 2002. A few topics are still available.

Unregistered students cannot obtain a "Schein" for the seminar, but they may attend the sessions as available seats in the room permit.

Schein:

The "Schein" for the seminar will be issued to those students who

• are registered (see above)
• provide all deliverables within the deadlines (see below)
• comply with the team charter (see below)

Deliverables:

1. Presentation of the assigned topic. The talk should be in German. The duration of the talk without discussion must be between 60 and 75 minutes, with discussion between 75 and 90 minutes.
2. Slides to accompany the talk that are to be shown on a computer connected to a beamer. The slides must be in English and must be formatted with the slidemaker tool of the W3C.
   Deadline: time of the presentation.
3. A hardcopy of 2. on transparencies that can be used with an overhead projector if the computer should fail.
   Deadline: time of the presentation.
4. A report (Ausarbeitung) about the assigned topic. The report must be written in English, about 10 A4 pages long, and must be formatted in validated XHTML/CSS.
   Deadline: time of the presentation.
5. A draft of 2. The draft must be sufficiently detailed so that the coach (acting as a QM expert) can see exactly what will be presented, how the talk is structured, and how much time is required for its parts. The purpose of this draft is a thorough feasibility study of the intended presentation.
   Deadline: one week before the presentation.
6. A draft of 4. It must be sufficiently detailed that it can be finalised within two or three days.
   Deadline: one week before the presentation.

Team Charter:

• Registered students attend all sessions of the seminar (signatures on an attendance list will be collected each time) and actively participate in the discussions.
• Registered students read the literature listed below for topic "A. Background on WWW Internationalization and Localization" before the third session of the seminar.
• Each speaker sets up and tests all technical equipment (computers, beamers, projectors etc.) early enough to guarantee that the presentation starts exactly on time, even in case of minor technical problems.
• Each speaker makes sure that any material required during the presentation (pencils for the white board and/or for transparencies, spare transparencies, photocopies etc.) is available before the start of the presentation.

See also Professor Zimmer's Richtlinien zur Ausarbeitung von Seminar- und Proseminarvorträgen. These guidelines fully apply to our seminar, even if a few details differ slightly (for example, whether the maximum time for the presentation is 70 minutes or 75 minutes).

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Subject of the Seminar

To make the World Wide Web really "worldwide" requires quite a lot of effort with respect to the representation, processing, and rendering of text in different languages. This seminar addresses issues and problems regarding i18n (internationalization) and l10n (localization) emphasizing the following topics:

A. Background on WWW Internationalization and Localization

B. Introduction to some non-European Scripts

C. Legacy Character Models and Introduction to Unicode

D. Unicode Encodings and Character Properties

E. Unicode Technical Reports

F. Character Model for the World Wide Web

G. Language Tags, Markup

H. Text Direction, Bidirectionality, Ruby

I. Fonts, Date, Time, Names

J. Multilinguistic Web Pages, Translation

K. I18n/l10n in Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Java

L. Globalization, Culture, Personalization and Social Aspects of the WWW

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Literature

All participants of the seminar are expected to search for relevant literature on their own initiative. The following list provides useful entry points for each topic. Further information about all topics can be found in:
Michael Kraus: World Wide Web Internationalization and Localization Bookmarks
Martin Dürst: Making the WWW truly World Wide
Tony Graham: Unicode: A Primer, M&T Books, Foster City (CA), 2000. ISBN 0-7645-4625-2

A. Background on WWW Internationalization and Localization

Web Languages Hit Parade

W3C Internationalization Activity Statement

A world-wide World Wide Web

The Next Topics for WWW Internationalization

List of International World Wide Web Conferences

About International Unicode Conferences

B. Introduction to some non-European Scripts

Die arabische Sprache und Schrift

Einführung in die arabische Schrift

An Arabic font for Unicode

The Arabic Mosaic Browser

Arabization of Graphical User Interfaces

Arabic Linux

C. Legacy Character Models and Introduction to Unicode

czyborra.com/charsets/iso646.html

czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html

czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html

czyborra.com/charsets/cjk.html

czyborra.com/charsets/codepages.html

czyborra.com

Assignment of Character Sets

Unicode 3.0 - Introduction

General Structure

About International Unicode Conferences

Unicode 3.0 Online Edition

D. Unicode Encodings and Character Properties

Unicode Technical Report #17 - Character Encoding Model

General Structure

UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646

Unicode Standard Annex #19 - UTF-32

UTF-7, A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode

UTF-EBCDIC

Character Properties

Unicode 3.0 Online Edition

Unicode Home Page

E. Unicode Technical Reports

Unicode Normalization Forms

Case Mappings

Unicode Collation Algorithm

Unicode Newline Guidelines

Line Breaking Properties

East Asian Width

Unicode Home Page

F. Character Model for the World Wide Web

Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0

G. Language Tags, Markup

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt

ISO 639-2 Registration Authority - Library of Congress

Language Codes

Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2070.txt

Internationalization/localization: HTTP

Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI)

i18n/l10n: URIs and other identifiers

Language information and text direction

Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)

XHTML 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language

W3C I18N: Language taging in HTML and XML

Putting language attributes in HTML

H. Text Direction, Bidirectionality, Ruby

i18n/l10n: style sheets

The Bidirectional Algorithm

Ruby Annotation

CSS3 module: Ruby

Ruby in HTML

I. Fonts, Date, Time, Names

i18n/l10n: fonts

font.org

Fonts and the Web

Internationalization/localization: Time

Date and Time Formats

International Standard Date and Time Notation

Time Server

Leap Seconds

NIST Time and Frequency Division Home Page

Representing People's Names in Dublin Core

J. Multilinguistic Web Pages, Translation

Web Internationalization Discussion Group Proposal

WInter (Web Internationalization & Multilinguism) Internet-Draft

<HYPH> HTML suggestion - Nada, KTH

Help with creating a multilingual site

W3C Translations Overview

K. I18n/l10n in Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Java

Charlint - A Character Normalization Tool

Jigsaw Overview

Amaya Home Page

Tony Graham, Unicode: A Primer, Chapter 10: Operating System Support

Tony Graham, Unicode: A Primer, Chapter 11: Programming Language Support

Java Internationalization

L. Globalization, Culture, Personalization and Social Aspects of the WWW

Possible discussion: Apart from technical issues as covered by the topics above, the World Wide Web offers chances as well as problems at a more abstract level. Differences between cultures show up in the use of names, titles, colors, in conventions how to behave in a (electronic) shop, cafe, chat room, etc.

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Timetable

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teamXweb

For those willing to support the field trial of Holger Wagner's collaborative web-surfing tool, here are the links

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Reports and Slides

For information how to produce your report and your slides see the technical description and also the slidemaker documentation.

B. Introduction to some non-European Scripts

Slides on Arabic

C. Legacy Character Models and Introduction to Unicode

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

D. Unicode Encodings and Character Properties

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

E. Unicode Technical Reports

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

F. Character Model for the World Wide Web

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

G. Language Tags, Markup

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

H. Text Direction, Bidirectionality, Ruby

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

I. Fonts, Date, Time, Names

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

J. Multilinguistic Web Pages, Translation

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

K. I18n/l10n in Operating Systems, Software, Programming Languages, Java

Report and Slides and unformatted Slides

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