- From: Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:27:18 +0200
- To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Weston Ruter <westonruter@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Olivier GENDRIN <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > What about internationalisation/localisation of these error messages ? > > What if the spec recommended that the browser display internationalized > error messages based upon the @lang or @xml:lang of the INPUT element's > context? Similarly, what if the default labels for Submit and Reset buttons > were also localized based off of the language context? Imagine that I have a website build to learn a foreign language : the items of the forms will be in language A, but I wish to have error messages in language B, with a correct @lang attribute and a custom error message (a help message)... > I know this would require browsers to have a large language translation > table. And what if I want to build a website for a rare langage ? I have to submit tickets to the browsers makers to hope them to implement a language with perhaps 10.000 people speaking it ? -- Olivier G. http://www.lespacedunmatin.info/blog/
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