Does <HTML LANG=XX> appy to the entire page or just the section follows and before </LANG> (if such thing exist) ? I am publishing pages with largely Polish (windows-1251) and some blockquotes in Chinese (BIG-5). Until Unicode rules the world, how do I go about this? Tim ---------- From: Francois Yergeau[SMTP:yergeau@alis.com] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 1997 8:35 AM To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no Cc: M.T. Carrasco Benitez; WInter; Misha Wolf; mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch; Charles Wicksteed Subject: Re: Language labelling À 11:42 21-02-97 +0100, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no a écrit : >If I read RFC 2070 correctly, <HTML LANG=xx> is already legal HTML >under that standard. It certainly is, but the question at hand is a bit different. Given that we want to have a single language tag in a document (no potential conflict), where is the best place to put it? Tomas is for <META HTTP-EQUIV...> (also legal) because this is explicitely designed for HTTP servers to pick up and send as an HTTP header. I'm for <HTML LANG=xx>, because it fits into the structure of the HTML document and applies to the whole document. Although not designed explicitly for this purpose, servers may still pick up a language tag from there to put in an HTTP header. This is not forbidden, just like indexing engines are not forbidden to use the <TITLE>, some other special-purpose <META> or even comments for their purposes.Received on Saturday, 22 February 1997 14:21:14 GMT
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