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MCLS 70003, Fall Semester 2007:
Terminology Studies, Discussion Guide SW11

Version: 2007-08-27
SW11,  Interoperability 
Instructor PowerPoint: Interoperability Practice and Standards in Multilingual Environments (See MCLS-IAL1/Public/70003)
The readings comprise a number of other standards and recommendations regarding language use and identification in Web and other computing environments.
Readings
See 70003_SW11_Interoperability Folder on MCLS-IAL1/Public/70003 Server for articles
IETF RFC 4646, Tags for Identifying Languages
IETF RFC 4647, Matching of Language Tags
BCP 47 Links
Unicode 5.0.0. The Unicode Standard. http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/
Unicode CLDR Project: Common Locale Data Repository. http://www.unicode.org/cldr/

These standards are designed to ensure the interoperability of multilingual information in internationalization and globalization environments.
Task Description:
Students should be scheduling consultations concerning their Research Projects, both with the instructor and with their second readers.
Student PowerPoint Presentations
Student PowerPoints: Research Projects 3 and 4
Deliverables 
Submit PowerPoints after class for inclusion in the MCLS-IAL1 resource.