RE: Internationalization (was [w3c-wai-ig] <none>)

That sounds acceptable, although presumabley at some point there will be a
need for lagnuage packs or unicode to be available to serve up content
that would be unmaintainable. I think it is important that there is a
distinction between use of images to ensure that users can always see the
text, and appropriate use of images to provide content.

Tom

>
>> My own feeling is
>> that using images is generally not a good step and that it
>> would quickly become unmaintainable.
>
> However, getting back to the original discussion (native text
> as opposed to flags to denote different language versions),
> I would say that having a handful of images will not be such
> a huge maintenance job. Once users then choose a specific language, the
> page should of course contain unicode-encoded text, not graphics.
>
> Patrick
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Received on Thursday, 2 October 2003 06:05:36 UTC