W3C continues efforts to break down language barriers</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="W3C continues efforts to break down language barriers"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="W3C,continues,efforts,to,break,down,language,barriers"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">17-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>W3C continues efforts to break down language barriers</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_IvIv0kjK4r9SP7Rm16su_0.gif" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Washington, USA (Internetnews.com): As part of a continuing effort to break down language barriers on the Internet, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a standard for how applications can exchange and process characters from languages all over the world. The standards body wrote "Character Model of the World Wide Web: Fundamentals" to provide specifications authors, software programmers and content developers with a common guide for publishing interoperable text on the Web. IBM, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, webMethods, Siemens, BBC and Boeing are working to develop the character model. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3483386 " target="blank">www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3483386 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show