ISO-8859-1 and meta-tags, etc from Kristopher Walmsley on 1998-08-27 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from July to September 1998)

From: Kristopher Walmsley <k.walmsley@swipnet.se>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:49:57 +0100
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Message-ID: <35E51DAD.59A6@swipnet.se>

The Institute on Independent Living has certain sections of the site
translated to Swedish.

My question:  In writing meta-tags; table summaries; image ALT
descriptions, etc. do I need to use the ISO-8859 entity for the Swedish
characters (i.e. &auml;) or can I just write the character as it appears
(ä - "a" with an umlaut)?

Also, where can I get a complete list of LANG attribute codes - without
having to pay for a list from ISO?

Thanks

Kris Walmsley
Institute on Independent Living
http://www.independentliving.org

Received on Thursday, 27 August 1998 03:44:49 UTC