The Internet and Languages

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Internet and Languages, by Marie LebertThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.org** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in thisfile. **Title: The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000]Author: Marie LebertRelease Date: November 8, 2009 [EBook #30422]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INTERNET AND LANGUAGES ***Produced by Al HainesTHE INTERNET AND LANGUAGES[around the year 2000]MARIE LEBERTNEF, University of Toronto, 2009Copyright © 2009 Marie Lebert. All rights reserved.TABLE Introduction "Language nations" online Towards a "linguistic democracy" Encoding: from ASCII to Unicode First multilingual projects Online language dictionaries Learning languages online Minority languages on the web Multilingual encyclopedias Localization and internationalization Machine translation Chronology WebsitesINTRODUCTIONIt is true that the internet transcends the limitations of time, distances and borders, but what about languages? Non-English-speaking internet users reached 50% in July 2000.# "Language Nations""Because the internet has no national boundaries, the organization of users is bounded by other ...