Unicode Explained

• You are allowed to use a “Unicode Encoded” logo only if your page’s encoding is

UTF-8 or some other accepted Unicode encoding.

• You are also required to use the W3C HTML Validator to check that the encoding

is formally correct. However, markup validity is not required.

• You can select between logos of different design.

• You should copy the selected logo image onto the web server you use, rather than

refer to the image on the Unicode site.

• You must make the logo a link to the Unicode Consortium web site (main page).

The markup for the logo as suggested on the Unicode site does not quite conform to

good web authoring practices. The following uses more suitable alt and title attrib-

utes:

<div><a href="http://www.unicode.org/"

title="The Unicode Consortium (main page)">

<img src="unicode-aqua-onwhite.png" width="100" height="16"

alt="This page is Unicode encoded." border="0"></a></div>

Content Negotiation and Multilingual Sites

In the web context, content negotiation means automatic selection between alterna-

tives, such as different language versions or differently encoded versions of web content.

The negotiation takes place between a browser and a server, without direct human

interference.

In content negotiation, the browser is supposed to act on behalf of the user, sending

the user’s preference settings as needed. This is however the weakest practical point

especially in language negotiation: ...