- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:24:48 +0900
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> wrote: > 1. With Unicode as the official HTML character set, and the possibility > that any character within the entire repertoire may potentially appear > within the document, the need for explicit language markup becomes even > more acute. Exactly. And Unicode 3.0 is even trying to include language tags by itself in Plane 14. > 2. I recall having read that there is an HTTP header which allows the > language, not just the character set, of the document to be conveyed to > the user agent. Yes, there is a "Content-Language" HTTP response header. For example, <http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/DOM-REC> is provided in 6 languages, namely, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese and Swedish. We're adding appropriate Content-Language header in addition to charset parameter of Contnt-Type header. Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
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