- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:39:06 +0100
- To: <public-comments-wcag20@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>
Dear WCAG, At http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS/#language-tech you say: "Use the lang attribute to identify the natural language used in a document." We believe this should clarify that XHTML requires xml:lang also for documents served as text/html [1]. (XHTML documents served as XML only require xml:lang.) Note that according to the XHTML spec, xml:lang takes precedence for XHTML documents in case of conflict. There is also other text and another technique in the section on Language that would need to be updated in this manner. We also believe that it would be more intuitive for the new reader to reverse the order of the two subsections entitled "Identifying the primary language" and "Identifying changes in language". Finally, you may wish to add a note that, although the HTML specification still refers to RFC1766 for definition and explanation of how to implement language codes, RFC1766 has now been obsoleted by RFC3066 [2], and authors should use the latter document. (I18N has requested that an erratum be added to the specification to this effect, but it is not clear at this point when errata will be forthcoming.) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_7 [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt Richard Ishida, For the I18N WG. ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ http://www.w3.org/International/ http://www.w3.org/International/geo/ See the W3C Internationalization FAQ page http://www.w3.org/International/questions.html
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