Unicode Explained

perform any translation. Here we will briefly consider some such aspects. Many of them

are discussed in more detail at http://webtips.dan.info/language.html.

Producing the translations

When producing different language versions, automatic translation programs might be

used to some extent. However, a competent human translator should be responsible

for the translation work. Optimally the human translator should know the basics of

the HTML language so that he can produce the translation directly as an HTML docu-

ment. That way, the material to be translated could be delivered in an HTML docu-

ment, and the translator would replace the texts, leaving (usually) the HTML markup

as it is.

As another alternative, the text could be given to the translator either as a plain text file

or as displayed by a web browser, for example, as printed on paper. In the latter case,

the translator could deduce some relevant information from the appearance of the text.

On the other hand, HTML markup could better tell the intended structure of the

document, which may have some significance in selecting between alternatives in the

translation. In any case, if the translator sends only the translated text, then someone

else has to put it into HTML format, in practice, by merging the text with HTML

markup. This cannot be done without knowing the language of the translation to some

extent.

When working with the