Initial comments on http://www.w3.org/International/its/techniques/its-techniques.html#AuthLang Make sure to indicate the language for all elements and attributes of your document. -> Indicate the language of your content. Your DTD or schema should provide the xml:lang attribute for this purpose. See: Best Practice 1: Provide xml:lang to specify natural language content for more information. Well it could also provide it's own attribute if it's a legacy format. We should acknowledge that. <q xml:lang="fr-ca">Je me souviens</q> Does this have to say fr-ca? If not, fr is better. List of applications for language. Should we add voice browsers? Background information * Internationalization FAQ: xml:lang in XML document schemas. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-when-xmllang I don't think this is interest to content authors. Reference links * The values to use with xml:lang to specify a language. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt I'd recommend a link to Language tags in HTML and XML http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/ you should also link to the IANA subtag registry and explain what it is in the text Test data * I18N Tests: Automatic font assignment for CJK text. http://www.w3.org/International/tests/sec-cjk-fonts.html Note that this test is for text served as HTML, not XML. You may want to create your own?? I think you should also read http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html to check whether there's anything else we should say here. In the GEO WG we found it was a good idea to clearly signpost aspects of the description, such as How to: Discussion: etc. to allow for quick access to the 'how do I do this?'. Hope that's of some help, RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.11/722 - Release Date: 14/03/2007 15:38Received on Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:51:32 GMT
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