- From: Tex Texin <textexin@xencraft.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 03:20:11 -0800
- To: "'Richard Ishida'" <ishida@w3.org>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>, <public-html@w3.org>
I don't think it is a fine point Richard, keeping clear on the precedence is important. thanks tex -----Original Message----- From: www-international-request@w3.org [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Richard Ishida Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:59 AM To: 'Ian Hickson' Cc: www-international@w3.org; public-html@w3.org Subject: RE: what's the language of a document ? > > I was about to write that I'm as happy with 'pragma-set default > > language' as with 'Content-Language pragma language', but on reflection, > > your proposal does still sound like the pragma may have set the default, > > whereas it wouldn't do so if there were an attribute on the html tag. > > (I know that CL pragma language is rather ugly though.) > > I don't understand... doesn't the pragma in fact set the default? If by 'default language' we mean 'the language of the page as a whole', I guess it can do, unless html lang="..." is being used (in which case the lang attribute sets the default). It may be that I'm arguing too fine a point here. RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/International/ http://rishida.net/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch] > Sent: 08 February 2010 23:12 > To: Richard Ishida > Cc: www-international@w3.org; public-html@w3.org > Subject: RE: what's the language of a document ? > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Richard Ishida wrote: > > > > Did you see http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/Htmlissue88 ? (Which has > > been submitted and was moved forward a notch at the HTML telecon last > week). > > I did not. (FWIW, I was told by the HTMLWG chairs that the telecons were > just status update meetings, so as I understand it nothing can actually > move at all during those meetings.) > > > > I'm just asking so that I know whether you took those suggestions into > > account when I read what you ended up writing - I noticed a couple of > > proposed changes there that you didn't do. > > That's possible; I was going from my notes at the F2F. Please feel free to > file bugs for any remaining issues if you haven't already, and I'll make > sure to go through them carefully. > > > > I was about to write that I'm as happy with 'pragma-set default > > language' as with 'Content-Language pragma language', but on reflection, > > your proposal does still sound like the pragma may have set the default, > > whereas it wouldn't do so if there were an attribute on the html tag. > > (I know that CL pragma language is rather ugly though.) > > I don't understand... doesn't the pragma in fact set the default? > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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