For More Information
The very success of the World Wide Web means that HTTP applications will continue to exchange more and more content in different languages and character sets. For more information on the important but slightly complex topic of multilingual multimedia, please refer to the following sources.
Appendixes
· IANA-registered charset tags are listed in Table H-1.
· IANA-registered language tags are shown in Table G-1.
· ISO 639 language codes are shown in Table G-2.
· ISO 3166 country codes are shown in Table G-3.
Internet Internationalization
http://www.w3.org/International/
"Making the WWW Truly World Wide"-the W3C Internationalization and Localization web site.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
RFC 2396, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax," is the defining document of URIs. This document includes sections describing character set restrictions for international URIs.
CJKV Information Processing
Ken Lunde, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. CJKV is the bible of Asian electronic character processing. Asian character sets are varied and complex, but this book provides an excellent introduction to the standards technologies for large character sets.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2277.txt
RFC 2277, "IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages," documents the current policies being applied by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) toward the standardization efforts in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in order to help Internet protocols interchange data in multiple languages and characters.
International Standards
http://www.iana.org/numbers.htm
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contains repositories of registered names and numbers. The "Protocol Numbers and Assignments Directory" contains records of registered character sets for use on the Internet. Because much work on international communications falls under the domain of the ISO, and not the Internet community, the IANA listings are not exhaustive.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt
RFC 3066, "Tags for the Identification of Languages," describes language tags, their values, and how to construct them.
"Codes for the representation of names of languages"
ISO 639:1988 (E/F), The International Organization for Standardization, first edition.
"Codes for the representation of names of languages-Part 2: Alpha-3 code"
ISO 639-2:1998, Joint Working Group of ISO TC46/SC4 and ISO TC37/SC2, first edition.
"Codes for the representation of names of countries"
ISO 3166:1988 (E/F), The International Organization for Standardization, third edition.