- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 18:16:40 +0200
- To: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@googlemail.com>
- CC: public-webfonts-wg@w3.org
Hello Jonathan, I'm going through the disposition of comments and the actions list, trying to pull together the spec edits that need to be done. Here is the first one I have found. xsd:NCName is too constraining for lang attributes http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/DoC/issues-lc-2010.html#issue-7 and I18n-ISSUE-4: Language tag references http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/DoC/issues-lc-2010.html#issue-10 The spec needs to be updated to reference BCP47, which covers both the syntax of the attribute and the rules for language matching. Current text is: The text elements MAY be given a lang attribute. The possible values for the lang attribute can be found in the IANA Subtag Registry [Subtag]. A user agent displaying metadata is expected to choose a preferred language/locale to display from among those available, following RFC 4647 [RFC-4647]. together with the edit for I18n-ISSUE-2: Why not using xml:lang? http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/DoC/issues-lc-2010.html#issue-9 it seems to me that suitable replacement text would be The text elements MAY be given a lang attribute in the XML namespace [XML]. For backwards compatibility, lang attributes in the are also accepted in older content, and SHOULD be treated the same as xml:lang. New content SHOULD instead use xml:lang. The syntax of valued of the the xml:lang attribute can be found in BCP47 [BCP47]. A user agent displaying metadata is expected to choose a preferred language/locale to display from among those available, following BCP47. The RNG is updated and checked in today, along with the examples (apart from the two historical, 'real world' examples'. It may be worth mentioning in the spec that these use the historical lang attribute. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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