[I18n-sig] Character Model for the World Wide Web
Misha.Wolf@reuters.com
Misha.Wolf@reuters.com
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:06:08 +0000
I'm very pleased to be able to announce the publication of a new Working
Draft of the Character Model for the World Wide Web:
http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/
An extract from the document follows:
Abstract
This Architectural Specification provides authors of specifications,
software developers, and content developers with a common reference for
interoperable text manipulation on the World Wide Web. Topics addressed
include encoding identification, early uniform normalization, string
identity matching, string indexing, and URI conventions, building on the
Universal Character Set, defined jointly by Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646.
Some introductory material on characters and character encodings is also
provided.
Status of this Document
This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest
status of this series of documents is maintained at the W3C.
This is a W3C Working Draft published between the first Last Call
Working Draft of 26 January 2001 and a planned second Last Call. This
interim publication is used to document the further progress made on
addressing the comments received during the first Last Call. A list of
last call comments with their status can be found in the disposition of
comments (Members only).
Work is still ongoing on addressing the comments received during the
first Last Call. We do not encourage comments on this Working Draft;
instead we ask reviewers to wait for the second Last Call. We will
announce the second Last Call on the W3C Internationalization public
mailing list (www-international@w3.org; subscribe). Comments from the
public and from organizations outside the W3C may be sent to
www-i18n-comments@w3.org (archive). Comments from W3C Working Groups may
be sent directly to the Internationalization Interest Group
(w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org), with cross-posting to the originating Group, to
facilitate discussion and resolution.
Due to the architectural nature of this document, it affects a large
number of W3C Working Groups, but also software developers, content
developers, and writers and users of specifications outside the W3C that
have to interface with W3C specifications.
This document is published as part of the W3C Internationalization
Activity by the Internationalization Working Group (Members only), with
the help of the Internationalization Interest Group. The
Internationalization Working Group will not allow early implementation
to constrain its ability to make changes to this specification prior to
final release. Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement
by the W3C Membership. It is inappropriate to use W3C Working Drafts as
reference material or to cite them as other than "work in progress". A
list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be
found at http://www.w3.org/TR.
For information about the requirements that informed the development of
important parts of this specification, see Requirements for String
Identity Matching and String Indexing [CharReq].
Misha Wolf
W3C I18N WG Chair
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