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- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:34:32 +0000
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I18N-ISSUE-143: Bug 14470 - Microdata: Language handling [HTML5-mail] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/143 Raised by: Richard Ishida On product: HTML5-mail Bugzilla: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14470 Jeni Tennison 2011-10-14 19:21:01 UTC It is not clear how microdata handles languages. Language is not mentioned as part of the microdata data model [1]. It is not exposed within microdata JSON [2]. It is not used in the algorithm for creating vCard [3] or iCalendar [4], where it should be used to provide a value for the LANGUAGE property [5][6]. There is a list of examples of multi-lingual content on the web at [7]. Another example is the EUR-LEX site where information about items of European legislation is available in multiple languages [8] or on legislation.gov.uk where Welsh and English titles for the same item of legislation are listed together [9]. Microdata will be unusable for multi-lingual content if it doesn't preserve the language of textual values. The spec should make it clear whether language should be preserved by consumers, ignored, or if this is implementation dependent. Regardless, the vCard and iCalendar conversions in the spec should take account of language. [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#the-microdata-model [2] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#json [3] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#conversion-to-vcard [4] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#conversion-to-icalendar [5] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350#section-5.1 [6] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.2.10 [7] http://microformats.org/wiki/multilingual-examples [8] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31994Y0702(01):FR:NOT [9] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi
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