- From: Jonathan Rosenne <100320.1303@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: 20 Aug 96 20:35:50 EDT
- To: WWW HTML List <www-html@w3.org>
Stephanos Piperoglou wrote: >> DD> 1) What langauge is this document written in? >> >> The old HTML 3 proposal allowed one to specify <BODY LANG="en.us"> >> for U.S. English. If I wanted to stick to META, I'd use >> <META NAME="Language" CONTENT="en.us"> or something like that. > >How about ><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html ; charset=iso-8859-7"> charset specifies a coding, not a language. It is quite easy to write English or Italian in 8859-7 (beacuse the first half is just ASCII). But the HTML i18n spec privides for a language attribute for the page and each element of it (if needed). This is not meta information. Jonathan
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