How to determine the language of the node if the language code isn't recognised. (Subject: Effect of bogus lang on determining natural language) (credit: hs) (whatwg r2056) language http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1235.html#language http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1234&r2=1.1235&f=h http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=2055&to=2056 =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v retrieving revision 1.1234 retrieving revision 1.1235 diff -u -d -r1.1234 -r1.1235 --- Overview.html 12 Aug 2008 09:04:24 -0000 1.1234 +++ Overview.html 12 Aug 2008 09:32:34 -0000 1.1235 @@ -7980,7 +7980,9 @@ href="#xmllang">xml:lang</a></code> attribute set or is an <a href="#html-elements" title="HTML elements">HTML element</a> and has a <code title=attr-lang><a href="#lang">lang</a></code> attribute set. That - attribute specifies the language of the node. + attribute specifies the language of the node. If that attribute's value is + not a recognised language code, then it must be treated as an unknown + language (as if the value was the empty string). <p>If both the <code title=attr-xml-lang><a href="#xmllang">xml:lang</a></code> attribute and the <codeReceived on Tuesday, 12 August 2008 09:49:54 GMT
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