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<p>Updated document status is available on the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/i18n-core/publications/">group publication status page</a>.</p>
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<p>Draft state indicates the state of the deliverable at the time of the charter approval.</p>
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<p>The formal documents produced by the Working Group are guidelines, best practices, requirements, and the like. These are best published as Working Group Notes. </p>
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<p>The Working Group will not produce Rec-track specifications, but will maintain the following W3C Recommendations, should any changes be necessary:</p>
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Normative Specifications
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The Working Group will deliver the following W3C normative specifications:
<pclass="todo">Per <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#WGCharter">5.2.6</a>, for every Recommendation Track deliverable that continues work on a Working Draft (WD) published under any other Charter (including a predecessor group of the same name), for which there is an existing <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#exclusion-draft">Exclusion Draft</a>: </p>
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<p><b>Adopted Draft:</b> The <spanclass="todo">title, stable URL, and publication date of the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#adopted-draft">Adopted Draft</a></span> which will serve to continue the work on the deliverable. If the draft is not a continuation of an existing draft (such as renaming the new draft by using a new version number), the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#adopted-draft">Adopted Draft</a> field must not used (as well as "Exclusion Draft" and "Exclusion Draft Charter" below) (see also <ahref="https://www.w3.org/2025/04/rdf-star-council-report.html#recommendations">Council recommendation</a> and <ahref="https://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq#superset">FAQ #41</a>). If the spec is adopted from a Community Group, this may be a good time to check that <ahref="https://www.w3.org/guide/process/cg-transition.html#are-ipr-commitments-in-place">IPR commitments are in place</a>.</p>
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<p><b>Exclusion Draft:</b> The <spanclass="todo">title, stable URL, and publication date of the most recent <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#exclusion-draft">Exclusion Draft</a></span>.
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<spanclass="todo">Exclusion period <b>began</b>; Exclusion period <b>ended</b>.</span><spanclass="todo">(this <ahref="https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/charter-assistant?wgid=32061">charter assistant</a> helps in producing the list. use the proper <ahref="https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/">wgid</a>)</span>
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</p><p><b>Exclusion Draft Charter:</b> The <spanclass="todo">stable URL of the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#exclusion-draft-charter">Working Group charter</a></span> under which the most recent Exclusion Draft was published.
<pclass="todo">Per <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#WGCharter">5.2.6</a>, for every Recommendation Track deliverable that continues work on a Working Draft (WD) published under any other Charter (including a predecessor group of the same name), for which there is an existing <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#exclusion-draft">Exclusion Draft</a>: </p>
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<p><b>Adopted Draft:</b> The <spanclass="todo">title, stable URL, and publication date of the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#adopted-draft">Adopted Draft</a></span> which will serve to continue the work on the deliverable. If the draft is not a continuation of an existing draft (such as renaming the new draft by using a new version number), the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#adopted-draft">Adopted Draft</a> field must not used (as well as "Exclusion Draft" and "Exclusion Draft Charter" below) (see also <ahref="https://www.w3.org/2025/04/rdf-star-council-report.html#recommendations">Council recommendation</a> and <ahref="https://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq#superset">FAQ #41</a>). If the spec is adopted from a Community Group, this may be a good time to check that <ahref="https://www.w3.org/guide/process/cg-transition.html#are-ipr-commitments-in-place">IPR commitments are in place</a>.</p>
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<p><b>Exclusion Draft:</b> The <spanclass="todo">title, stable URL, and publication date of the most recent <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#exclusion-draft">Exclusion Draft</a></span>.
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<spanclass="todo">Exclusion period <b>began</b>; Exclusion period <b>ended</b>.</span><spanclass="todo">(this <ahref="https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/charter-assistant?wgid=32061">charter assistant</a> helps in producing the list. use the proper <ahref="https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/">wgid</a>)</span>
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</p><p><b>Exclusion Draft Charter:</b> The <spanclass="todo">stable URL of the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#exclusion-draft-charter">Working Group charter</a></span> under which the most recent Exclusion Draft was published.
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<p>The Working Group will also maintain the following W3C Recommendations, should any changes be necessary:</p>
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<dt>Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) <ahref="https://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/">Version 1.0</a> and <ahref="https://www.w3.org/TR/its20/">Version 2.0</a></dt>
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<dd>These specifications define data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes. ITS 2 adds additional concepts that are designed to foster the automated creation and processing of multilingual Web content.</dd>
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<dd>"Ruby" are short runs of text alongside the base text, typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification defined an XHTML module for ruby markup.</dd>
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<!-- If no incubation or not a Working Group, delete the section. -->
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Tentative Deliverables
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<p>Depending on the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/guide/incubation.html">incubation</a> progress, interest from multiple implementers, and the consensus
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of the Group participants, the Working Group may adopt the following documents
<p>This specification defines a message resource as a standard container for <ahref="https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Unicode MessageFormat ("MF2")</a> messages. </p>
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<pclass="draft-status"><b>Draft state:</b>
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Proposal in the Internationalization Working Group</p>
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Other non-normative documents may be created such as guidelines, best practices, requirements, and the like. These are best published as Working Group Notes.</p>
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<h3>Language enablement</h3>
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<p>The WG will work with, coordinate, and publish documents for various task forces within the Internationalization Interest Group, which produce document layout and related requirements for the Web Platform and Electronic Book technologies. The aim is to produce documents similar to the <ahref="https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/">Japanese Layout Requirements</a> and gap-analysis documents for a range of scripts and languages, and other sources of information for implementers and content developers. See a list of <ahref="https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/nav/languagedev#reviews">currently available information</a>.</p>
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<p>Currently this work is managed through 13 repositories, typically each focused on a group of languages, where experts can discuss issues and requirements for support of their language or writing system on the Web. These repositories currently contain 33 gap-analysis documents (some of which cover multiple languages), from which 100 gaps have been identified for the pipeline dashboard which will help us determine and prioritise what needs attention. During the upcoming charter, the Working Group will guide this work forward, creating new repositories, gap analysis, and layout requirements documents as needed to accomodate additional languages as issues arise and experts are available.</p>
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<h3>Developer support</h3>
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<p>Horizontal review of specifications of other W3C Working Groups for issues related to
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internationalization, global usage, and cultural sensitivity is an essential
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deliverable of the Internationalization Working Group. During the past 3 years the Working Group has reviewed over 60 specifications, and has tracked around 400 issues.
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<p>In addition to discussions arising from reviews, the Working Group is often called upon to support other Working Groups with adhoc advice and discussion.</p>
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<p>The WG will also maintain checklists and guidance in written form for developers of specifications.</p>
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<p>The WG will continue to publish resources on the
subsite to assist users of W3C and related Web technologies to internationalize
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their applications, content, and services. These will include <ahref="https://www.w3.org/International/articlelist">articles,
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tutorials, notes, videos, and reference pages</a>. </p>
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Over the past 3 years, the group has published 4 new articles, rewritten or significantly updated 6 more, and created and/or published 4 Working Drafts/WG Notes containing detailed technical advice. (This doesn't include documents published during the language enablement work.) The group expects to continue this work during the new charter and create additional materials. These educational materials benefit both specification developers and content authors, and the choice of topics is driven by the needs that arise during developer support or by significant developments related to international use of the Web.
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targeted at specific user types and activities, that group together and link to
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all relevant information in summary form, with an organization that aids their
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<p>The WG will build on the <a
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