- From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:02:07 +0100
- To: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org>, <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Dubost" <karl@w3.org> To: <www-html@w3.org> Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: Re: Abbreviations and Acronyms: [techs] Latest HTML Techniques Draft <acronym title="Organisation des Nations Unies" xml:lang="fr">ONU</acronym> (to be pronounced as words) becomes in english <abbr title="United Nations" xml:lang="en">UN</abbr> (to be spelled out letter by letter) Roberto Scano: Hum... IMHO all the two text are acronym and not abbreviation. UN is not abbreviation but Acronym... an abbreviation could be: <abbr title="Monday" xml:lang="en">Mon.</abbr> A question for clarify: the abbreviation must end with a . (eg., Mr., Mon., Jan., ...) ?
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