Standards representing all the world’s languages on WWW completed

A global consortium of engineers and linguists have made the final decision on a document that enables all the languages in the world to be fully represented on the World Wide Web/WWW, after a decade of work. This announcement was made by a Swede, Patrik Fältström, to the Internet Governance Forum during a United Nations meeting in October 2006. The full report by Kieren McCarthy is available online from Guardian Technology.