Re: [Ltru] Re: For review: Tagging text with no language

Well, if the code section is delimited with a consistent tag, you know to 
treat what's in there differently than the rest of the text. I used to 
edit technical tutorials for O'Reilly, so trust me, the <code> tag and I 
are old friends. On that site the code tag drives style sheets, but it is 
really a semantic delimiter -- not a design element -- and can potentially 
be used for a lot more. I'm a bit leery of spellcheckers for code.

But as long as the code section is delimited, you can write spellcheckers 
or screenreaders that  will handle that text differently.

I did not request a SHOULD NOT with "no linguistic content." My request 
was that script tags SHOULD NOT be used with linguistic *audio* content 
because spoken language, by definition, is not written down. I really 
don't have much use for the zxx tag.  I saw a use case that related to 
und-Latn that made sense, but zxx-Latn makes no sense to me. Did I miss 
that thread or is that a typo?

Regards,

Karen Broome




Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> 
04/13/2007 02:33 PM

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Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com wrote:
 
> With respect to computer language snippets, isn't that what the <code>
> tag is for -- at least in XHTML?

Yes, typically interpreted as switch to a monospaced font.  But maybe
not good enough to convince spell-checkers that they should skip this
part, or to convince screenreaders that what follows might be not in
the inherited xml:lang.

While we're at it, IIRC you wanted a SHOULD NOT about script subtags
for "no linguistic content".  Mark's list of interesting examples also
contains a "zxx" use case, and it's clearly a zxx-Latn example.

Apparently the SHOULD NOT in RFC 4646 about "und" is already dubious,
so better we don't add another shaky SHOULD NOT about scripts for "zxx".

Frank



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