Re: Translation control in HTML5

Ian Hickson wrote:

>> In HTML 5, this could be done with a new attribute "translate", valid on 
>> all elements. Values "yes" and "no". Default is "yes".  By default 
>> attributes are not translatable, alt and title remaining as exceptions. 
>> HTML will not introduce new translatable attributes.
> 
> How about a new keyword for "lang", instead, which means "not 
> translatable" or some such? lang="computer-code" or something.

Language and translatability are orthogonal, they should be specified 
separately. For example imagine sentence from German travel guide 
written in English:

<p lang="en">In Germany it is quite common to clink with glasses before 
drinking and to say <em lang="de" translate="no">Prost!</em> as a toast.</p>

If you will translate this sentence to French, you of course do not want 
to translate "Prost" but you still want to preserve that it is in German 
language so things like hyphenation or stemming in full-text search 
could work.

			Jirka


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