Re: meta content-language

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Phillips, Addison wrote:
> ...
> The main beneficiaries of good markup in the short term would be the 
> page authors themselves, since authoring tools interact with stuff like 
> spell- and grammar-checking that are strongly language influenced. And 
> tools makers might very well provide better automagic tagging if they 
> could improve their own features based on embedded tags.
> ...

Spell-checking indeed comes to mind. If I open this:

<html>
   <head
   </html>
   <body>
     <p lang="en">This text is in English.</p>
     <p lang="de">Dieser Text ist auf Deutsch.</p>
   </body>
</html>

in IE, so "select all" and paste it into an empty MS Word document, Word 
indeed understands which spell checker to use for the different paragraphs.

BR, Julian