Current font technologies and font rendering systems make a distinction between writing scripts that require complex rendering and those scripts that do not. In most cases Latin is treated as a non-complex script. For a range of African and South East Asian languages that use the Latin script, the Latin script needs to be treated as a complex script.
Posted in Web i18n, MPAS, Language enablement, Languages | No Comments »
The W3C website has an article on using CSS 2.1 selectors to apply language specific styling based on the language of an element. This is quite an effective tool for developing websites with multilingual content.
The key drawback to using language specific styling is Internet Explorer’s limited support for CSS 2.1 selectors. Although there are strategies to address Internet Explorer’s deficiencies.
Vicnet’s internal projects may involve one language, five languages or seventy languages. Language specific styling is a useful way to address a range of design issues within websites with multilingual content. this article will provide a brief look at the some of the strategies and techniques we use within our projects.
Posted in Web i18n, Typography | No Comments »