- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:34:00 +0200
- To: "Chris Ridpath" <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>
- cc: "WAI ER IG List" <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
> Is it practically possible to detect when the author has used words that are > not in the document's primary language? No, ça n'est pas possible. By analysing the charset used, I guess one could design some heuristics (like I used a c cedilla in the above line, which is very much french), but that would be just that: a guess, and it would give a lot of misses. In a sense, if it was possible, it wouldn't be a P1... Analysing the overall language is simpler because statistical tools can be used. > If we can't detect this then should every document (that has a BODY and any > text) trigger a warning about this? I guess so.
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