Re: [Bug 28255] New: [webvtt] no provision for indicating overall content language(s) [I18N-ISSUE-420]

The Conversion of 608/708 captions to WebVTT
<https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/text-tracks/raw-file/default/608toVTT/608toVTT.html#header>
draft report proposes a "Language" metadata field in the Header. I think
this would be useful for any track.

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:48 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:

> I am not sure why I hesitate to suggest it, but do we need provision for
> language in the header of the VTT file?
>
>
> > On Mar 21, 2015, at 17:01 , bugzilla@jessica.w3.org wrote:
> >
> > https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28255
> >
> >            Bug ID: 28255
> >           Summary: [webvtt] no provision for indicating overall content
> >                    language(s) [I18N-ISSUE-420]
> >           Product: TextTracks CG
> >           Version: unspecified
> >          Hardware: PC
> >                OS: All
> >            Status: NEW
> >          Severity: normal
> >          Priority: P2
> >         Component: WebVTT
> >          Assignee: dave.null@w3.org
> >          Reporter: silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com
> >        QA Contact: public-texttracks@w3.org
> >                CC: philipj@opera.com, silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com
> >
> > Feedback by Addison Phillips from W3C I18N group:
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2015Mar/0054.html
> >
> > I18N comment:  https://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/420
> >
> > This is a comment on:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1
> >
> > We didn't find a means for indicating the natural language of the
> content as a
> > whole. There is a cue language span, for spanning runs of text, but no
> way to
> > indicate the language of the file as a whole (that is, the language
> outside a
> > spanned section).
> >
> > Lack of language tags means that language-specific processing, such as
> > language-specific font selection, may not be available for the text,
> leading to
> > substandard presentation.
> >
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> >
>
> David Singer
> Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>
>