Re: Translation control in HTML5

David Muschiol wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:
>> Language and translatability are orthogonal, they should be specified
>> separately. For example imagine sentence from German travel guide written in
>> English:
>>
>> <p lang="en">In Germany it is quite common to clink with glasses before
>> drinking and to say <em lang="de" translate="no">Prost!</em> as a toast.</p>
>>
>> If you will translate this sentence to French, you of course do not want to
>> translate "Prost" but you still want to preserve that it is in German
>> language so things like hyphenation or stemming in full-text search could
>> work.
> 
> Very good point.  lang="only de" would also work here while even being

This would completely break syntax of lang attribute values which should 
be following BCP 47 (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt)

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