The Development of a Multi-lingual World Wide Web
My study fits as a component into the larger paper done for the first part of "The Evolution of the Global/International System." In the first paper, I looked through and categorised responses from other languages to the Global dominance of the English language. Whilst doing that paper, I discovered that languages which are of non-romanised script (Chinese, Japanese, Thai) do not have comfortable and complete access to internet and email. The people communicating in those vernaculars must westernise their writing systems in order to participate on the world wide web.
Since the original inception of ARPANET, English has been the dominant
force on the Web. However, that fact is changing as different software
developments have begun counteracting the inequalities. I would like to
take a look at some of these and forthcoming developments in order to
comprehend how far away we are from a truly Multi-lingual World Wide Web.
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Last updated on 5 April 2001.