- From: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:42:35 -0500
- To: <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- CC: <www-international@w3.org>, <ishida@w3.org>, <public-html@w3.org>
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O.k. thanks. (I do know how to change my encoding; I just don't usually; perhaps you are right here.) In any case -- the user's preferences are helpful when nothing else works. Best, C. E. Whitehead cewcathar@hotmail.com > Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:31:21 +0100 > From: xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no > To: cewcathar@hotmail.com > CC: ian@hixie.ch; www-international@w3.org; ishida@w3.org; fielding@gbiv.com; public-html@w3.org > Subject: RE: ISSUE-88 / Re: what's the language of a document ? > > CE Whitehead, Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:57:22 -0500: > > > because I never set my language preferences for a particular > > page-- > > If you have a Web browsers were you can actually either set the > language of the current document (e.g. when lang="" is failing) or > where you can override lang="" (e.g. because it is wrong), then I would > like to know about that Web browser. > > I have never tried such a Web browser. But I would like to try it. It > could be a good feature - just as useful as the encoding menu currently > is (but of course, fortunately I seldom need to change the encoding > manually, and I expect that I only seldom would need to change the > language as well, if the UA supported this). > > Note that "preference" is a wide term, at least I perceive it as such, > when it appears in specification. In the Web browser I usually use, the > default encoding is changed via the encoding menu. Thus I can change > the default encoding - including override the current encoding - very > easily whenever I will. > -- > leif halvard silli
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