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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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August 10, 2003

Globalizing CSS

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As more and more Web sites make use of cascading style sheets (CSS), more and more Webmasters will struggle with localizing these sites into additional languages. Here is a valuable new Q&A from the W3C Internationalization Group.

Question:

What is the most appropriate way to associate CSS styles with text in a particular language in a multilingual XHTML/HTML document?

For the answer, go to http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-css-lang.html

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