RE: abbr and acronym

Quoting "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>:

> As an attempt to find some new paths for this rather diverging and
> repeating discussion, I propose the inclusion of a read="..."
> attribute, allowed for inline elements, with CDATA value, and defined
> specifically to indicate the intended spoken form of the element's
> content. It would typically be used for <span> elements. Examples:
> <span read="u s">US</span>
> <span read="United States">US</span>
> <span read="ohms">&Omega;</span>

For internationalisation purposes, I'd suggest that the value of read  
(or any similar proposed pronounciation hints) should be written in  
some phonetic form.

P
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Received on Thursday, 29 March 2007 11:13:08 UTC