i18n: A Brief Primer of Web Internationalization
summary
Rapid practical checklist: declare use UTF-8, tag content with lang and set base direction with dir and BDI for bidi handling, rely on the Unicode bidi algorithm rather than CSS hacks, and prefer logical properties (margin-inline-start, text-align:start) so layouts flip automatically. Demonstrates intrinsic sizing (auto, min/max-content) and shows a CSS recreation of a poster that resizes and survives an automatic Chinese translation, plus pointers to W3C i18n resources.
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