- From: Jungshik Shin <jshin@i18nl10n.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:20:00 +0900 (KST)
- To: Deborah Cawkwell <deborah.cawkwell@bbc.co.uk>
- Cc: public-i18n-geo@w3.org
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Deborah Cawkwell wrote: I'm very sorry for my late reply and thansk a lot for your prompt reply. > One of the purposes of our participation in the W3C I18N working group > and standards groups within the organisation is to continually improve > WS sites. We are keen to learn from the rest of the group as well as to > input into the group with problems that we face. That's great. I only wish others in news media did the same :-) (OT : It'd be even nicer of you (or others at BBC) to participate in W3C accessibility working group (http://www.w3.org/WAI) as well. if you don't at the moment.) > Jungshik is right in that currently we are only using utf-8 where there > is no alternative. This is something we are regularly looking at and > will change over time where it becomes appropriate for our target > audience. I'd argue that the change would be transparent to most audiences right now, but I'd not insist that you have to change it right away partly because I believe it's not just audience-side but also 'supplier side' (that is, BBC and its reporters and other staffs) that has to be taken into account. > Regarding the 'lang' tag, we will shortly be implementing this across > our site, in this case to comply with our internal language ... > Regarding your writing with the 'lang' tag suggestion and not receiving > a reply, I can only apologise. We usually try to respond to all No problem. I'm glad you're gonna implement it across the site soon. Jungshik
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