RE: Language declaration tests

It is not used generally speaking, but if you look at a page that has been language negotiated you will see it used. Eg.

http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/Overview.sv.html

http://www.w3.org/International/articles/serving-xhtml/Overview.en.html

http://www.w3.org/International/articles/inline-bidi-markup/Overview.he.html

etc.

RI

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deborah Cawkwell [mailto:deborah.cawkwell@bbc.co.uk] 
> Sent: 22 September 2004 13:33
> To: Richard Ishida; GEO
> Subject: RE: Language declaration tests
> 
> Richard - I can't see HTTP Content-Language information used 
> on W3C site at all (I am using Firefox's LiveHTTPHeaders to 
> view). Is that the case? 
>  
> Deborah
> 
>  -----Original Message----- 
>  From: public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org on behalf of 
> Richard Ishida 
>  Sent: Fri 17/09/2004 20:47 
>  To: GEO 
>  Cc: 
>  Subject: Language declaration tests
>  
>  
> 
> 
>  I decided to try developing some tests on Deborah's 
> list today.  See the three I came up with at 
> http://w3.org/International/tests/#lang-decl (entitled 
> 'Language declaration'). 
>  
>  See also a write-up of results for the Uas on my 
> desktop at http://w3.org/International/tests/results/lang-decl
>  
>  On a more philosophical note: We had been talking about 
> using these tests to simply detect whether language is 
> recognised inside the document, but I found that the use of 
> the language information in Gecko UAs depends on the feature 
> examined. So I give the detail for both :lang test and cjk 
> font test in the results.  We could extend these tests by 
> testing for other features that use language information if 
> we can think of any, or if any are developed later.
>  
>  We now need to develop more of the tests on Deborah's list.
>  
>  Hope that helps.  Please take a critical look at them for me.
>  Thanks,
>  RI
>  
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