"The World Wide Web is becoming more "world wide" every day. Hardware and software is produced for the global market. It needs to be easy to create and process information for a wide range of audiences: to publish material in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, or Thai. Languages, writing systems, character codes, and other local conventions should not form barriers to W3C technology. The goal is to ensure that W3C's formats and protocols are usable worldwide in all languages and in all writing systems."