RE: abbr and acronym

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

So you mean something like this:
<span read="/pɪŋ/">PNG</span>

The IPA prononciation rules could be applied here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet


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Erik van Kempen <e.j.f.v.kempen@student.tue.nl>
Student, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands