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The new charter for the Internationalization Working Group has been adopted. We welcome everyone to join or rejoin the group: https://www.w3.org/International/groups/wg/charter-2026.html
Internationalization Working Group Charter

We've recently added automated testing to our i18n articles. From now on, before publishing, we'll automatically check common issues such as wrong language tags, date formats, and invalid markup.

A NEW VERSION of
Requirements for Hangul Text Layout and Typography
한국어 텍스트 레이아웃 및 타이포그래피를 위한 요구사항
has been published.

https://www.w3.org/TR/klreq/

The content was rearranged to match the standard headings used for the W3C Language Enablement Framework.The document is still in English and Korean, with buttons to switch between.

Going forward, we will now begin adding new content.

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

I built a CLI that validates and explains BCP 47 language tags: https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcp47-cli
bcp47-cli

CLI for validating and explaining BCP 47 language tags. Latest version: 0.1.0, last published: a day ago. Start using bcp47-cli in your project by running `npm i bcp47-cli`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using bcp47-cli.

npm

Did you know that the mathematical value 1234.56 looks different in Boston, Berlin, and Bangalore? Hardcoding formats is a brittle and unsustainable approach to web design.

In our newest article, we break down how you can leverage JavaScript's native `Intl` API to effortlessly localize numbers, currencies, and units.

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-number-format

FOR REVIEW: Styling underlines

This article explores various ways in which CSS can be used to manage underlines for non-Latin scripts.

https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/articles/styling/underline.en.html

We are looking for comments by Thursday 19 March, 2026.

I'm poking through an old blog where something has gone wrong with the CSS and emoji images are being loaded not at text size but as unstyled SVGs which expand to the size of the container, and it REALLY adds something to the good ol' passive-aggressive friendly smile

I've recently been trying to create some CJK layout examples. They're still very basic and have many areas for improvement (such as more examples, multilingual support, more info about browser support, dark mode, display the underlying code, etc.).

Link: https://xfq.github.io/cjk-layout-lab/

The CJK Layout Lab

The CJK Layout Lab - Exploring modern Web typography.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@shimon1024/115253040804945989

"AFAIK, Mastodon is the first global social networking service that displays Mongolian script posts vertically" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36405#issuecomment-3871161138

Quoting this post for testing, and screenshot for reference.