- From: Lisa Seeman <lisa@ubaccess.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:58:22 +0200
- To: public-wcag-teamb@w3.org
dc:language indicates "a language of the intellectual content of the resource". so you can specify language by <meta name="dc:language" content="fr"> It does not say anything about the character set in use, e.g. I can write both English and French using the UTF-8 character set. It is possible to indicate that a resource uses multiple languages by repeating dc:language, but in DC metadata descriptions there is no implied ordering of repeated properties, so if you have <meta name="dc:language" content="fr"> <meta name="dc:language" content="en"> the two languages are treated equally. SO that is not helpful if they have the same character set. However if we have two languages on a page with different character sets we can say <meta name="dc:language" content="fr"> <meta name="dc:language" content="he"> without any confusion and without requirement marking up every word from the second page language. It will help WCAG adoption a lot in places like Israel if we do this What do you think? Lisa
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