[i18n-drafts] [questions/qa-http-and-lang] BRIEF_TITLE_GOES_HERE (#310)

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== [questions/qa-http-and-lang]  BRIEF_TITLE_GOES_HERE ==
[source] (https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-http-and-lang) [en]

In https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6907#issuecomment-888284213 @annevk said:

> Some of the information in that document seems inaccurate:
> - User agents must obey <meta http-equiv=content-language>, that's not a "can".
> - The HTTP Content-Language response header is used to determine the language of a node, if other information is not available.

I think the first point relates to:

> HTML5 did, however, make a concession for backwards compatibility. If there is a meta element with http-equiv set to Content-Language in the markup, and if there is no language attribute on the html tag, and if the meta element has a value that is a single language tag, then a browser can (not must) use that information to guess at the default language of the text on the page. 

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/i18n-drafts/issues/310 using your GitHub account


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