Fuqiao Xue
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Fuqiao Xue
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薛富侨 · W3C Staff
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Many people have forgotten Tim Berners-Lee's article "Cool URIs don't change", which emphasizes that links should be designed to be persistent. It suggests avoiding elements that are prone to change in links to ensure their long-term validity.
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“Westerners get used to this so-called ‘modern’ design, and they think everything should be like this. But when they put it into the CJK background, they found everything was different.”

www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/12...
Why Japan’s internet looks weird — unless you live here
A closer look at Japan’s maximalist web design shows how cultural values and practical needs create an online world richer than it appears.
www.japantimes.co.jp
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Unicode 18.0 (to be released in September 2026) will include 11,328 Small Seal Script characters, which is the set of characters standardized by Qin Shi Huang during the "standardizing writing" movement.

In addition, Unicode 18 will also add 965 Jurchen characters.
December 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The updated version of clreq published today supports extra spacing between Chinese and Western text: www.w3.org/TR/clreq/
Requirements for Chinese Text Layout - 中文排版需求
This document summarizes text composition requirements in the Chinese writing system. One of the goals of the task force is to describe issues for Chinese layout, another is to describe correspondence...
www.w3.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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“Each user agent serves its user, not any of the other constituencies.”

says the @tag.w3c.social.ap.brid.gy in their latest Group Note Draft on user agents www.w3.org/TR/2025/DNOT...
Web User Agents
www.w3.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
It's cool!
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Some pages on the W3C i18n subsite are finally mobile-friendly!
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Today marks 37 years since Joe Becker's landmark "Unicode 88" document! #Unicode #i18n
August 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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FOR REVIEW: Address formats around the world

The article Address formats around the world is out for wide review. We are looking for comments by Friday 5 December.

w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/...

See the blog post at www.w3.org/blog/Interna...
Address formats around the world
How do address formats differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?
w3c.github.io
August 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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New translation into Chinese:

Unicode双向文本算法基础 (Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm basics) www.w3.org/Internationa...

Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.
Unicode双向文本算法基础
Unicode双向文本算法是做什么的?
www.w3.org
July 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
W3C@30 talk
April 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Unfortunately, the same script in three countries now has three different names and commemorative days: October 9 in South Korea, January 15 in North Korea, and September 2 in Yanbian.
April 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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WEB I18N GAP PROGRESS: Support for extra spacing between Chinese/Japanese and Western text

Safari 18.4 supports text-autospace:ideograph-alpha ideograph-numeric;
April 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM