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Languages (3 Links)  Codes for the Representations of Names of Languages. A list of the ISO 649-2 codes for specifying languages in the HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) &lt;lang&gt; tag. 

Ethnologue. Resources and information about languages of the world, including software tools.  Ruby. Ruby Annotations are short runs of text alongside the base text, used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification, from the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), defines markup for Ruby, in the form of an XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Mark-up Language) module. 

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Localisation (6 Links)  Building Worldwide Web Sites: Make Sales (or just Friends) with a Web site that Speaks the Visitor's Language by Michael Lerner for IBM developerWorks, September 1999. This site gives tips for localization of web sites. 

Fabula: A Bilingual Multimedia Authoring Environment for Children Exploring Minority Languages by Viv Edwards, Lyn Pemberton, John Knight and Frank Monaghan in Language Learning and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 2, May 2002. Fabula provides software, which enables children learning European minority languages to create bilingual digital books. 

LISA (Localization Industry Standards Association). LISA provides best practice, business guidelines, and multilingual communication standards for translation and localization workflow, and enterprise globalization. 

Making Your Web Sites Accessible to Impaired and International Users by Mike Morgan. This article gives guidelines for web designers who want to ensure that their site is accessible to all users. </li>

Unicode. The Unicode Standard is a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of written texts in various languages. It provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, program, or language. </li>

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Internationalization. W3C is committed to making the web accessible to everyone by promoting technologies that take into account the vast differences of language, script, and culture.</li> </ol>

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