New translation into Chinese: 世界各地的人名 (Personal names around the world) https://t.co/IXfCe0gvuX Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: 断行的方法 (Approaches to line breaking) https://t.co/bFENwC5V2W Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New article: How can I use direction metadata in native APIs? https://t.co/48WVvfAjRv Links to docs in operating systems, programming environments, and user experience frameworks. These APIs can then be used to consume string direction metadata received on the Web.

New translation into Chinese: HTML中的语言信息（教程） (Working with language in HTML) https://t.co/NLY8AfFSHK Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: 双向文本：Unicode控制字符还是标记语言？ (Unicode controls vs. markup for bidi support) https://t.co/CF2rTok6FK Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

Just published: First Public Working Draft of Khmer Layout Requirements. https://t.co/rvBwp5ICza The document points to sources of reqs, discussions relevant to Khmer, tests, etc. In time, more descriptive text may be added to the document itself. https://t.co/jCo34oxs43

Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal font v2.004 supports NNBSP. Useful for morpheme breaks. See

New translation into Simplified Chinese 从右向左显示从左向右书写的文字 (RTL rendering of LTR scripts) https://t.co/VbILO2bPYn Translated by Fuqiao Xue.

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Noto font updates on Mac+Firefox Font display issues fixed in Nightly. For details see https://t.co/H70dR7VBBv

It is now possible to read character details more easily when reading about an orthography. See https://t.co/Jw7NQr6k3B for details.

New translation into French Les étiquettes de langues en HTML et XML (Language tags in HTML and XML) https://t.co/CeIvCYT1fQ Thanks to Gwendoline Clavé, Clavoline Traduction for providing this translation.

Gap report: https://t.co/v06bjT40Fe See CSS Text Decoration for how to use this feature. https://t.co/1RpP1R736v

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Interoperable emphasis marks Chinese and Japanese natively indicate emphasis for inline text using a small mark above or below the characters in horizontal text and to the right/left in vertical text. Now supported, using CSS, in all 3 major browser engines.

Gap report: https://t.co/M4Mke1A1kD See Ready-made Counter Styles to use or adapt almost 200 patterns from around the world. https://t.co/i4JWeipQ1d

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: All 3 major browser engines now support the ability to create custom counter styles—a major step forward in enabling fully interoperable list numbering & other counters that enable local approaches, especially for languages with smaller speaker populations.

New translation into Chinese: 用Accept-Language确定用户的区域设置 (Accept-Language used for locale setting) https://t.co/Nke7Uabvl0 Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: 选择语言标签 (Choosing a Language Tag) https://t.co/uwQcNvIbCg Thanks to Fuqiao Xue for providing this translation.

New translation into Chinese: 使用阿拉伯语、希伯来语和其他从右至左书写的文字创建HTML页面（教程） (Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts) https://t.co/ezgU9HLqKQ Translated by Fuqiao Xue.

First Public Working Draft published: Catalan Gap Analysis https://t.co/OBEWjPChgE Describes gaps for support of Catalan on the Web and in eBooks. Checks esp. CSS & HTML support in W3C specs and in browsers. Will grow over time.

WEB I18N GAP FIXED: <l·l> in Catalan signals a geminated /l/. The dot should NOT capitalise the 2nd L, eg. capitalisation of cancel·lar should produce Cancel·lar and not Cancel·Lar. This is now supported in all 3 major browser engines. Gap report: https://t.co/XY3dMibzpt