- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:18:52 +1000
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Ah, and I was going to say that the translations seem mostly to be of a reasonably good quality, and not like what I get from babelfish, although some are still linked to babelfish as I write. I trust this is temporary. So let me go to the other bits of the question: You should include a link element in the document head: <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-AU" href="how-she-works-mate.html" /> I would also make the flag part of the same link as the text but with alt="" since the text is there already. This will come out even nicer in the SVG version. What to put there is tricky. English is also understood in the US (although they don't use quite the same language) and many other countries. Portuguese is spoken in Brasil (with local variations), and Spanish is the mother tongue of more people than english. As far as I know there is no standard way of identifying languages other than words, but the flags are helpful for some. Using javascript to try and put people on the "right" page is a bad idea, because it will interfere with people selecting other language versions I think. But serving something from the server on Accept-Language makes sense. For what David said about a neutral version and an english-specific version, you have "http://www.learningdifferently.com/" which can be neutral, and the version index.html which is in english - then you need to be clear about which gets linked to from where in your site, and let people know on a page somewhere. cheers Chaals On Sunday, Sep 21, 2003, at 09:06 Australia/Sydney, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > > Let me take this opportunity to thank the following for their > translations: > > Emmanuelle for the Spanish > Catherine for the French > Tarcila for the Portuguese > > This was most instant, unexpected and kind. > > Anyone willing to offer others are most welcome, Dutch, German, > Italian, another of your choice. > > http://www.learningdifferently.com/index-t.html > > Thank you all again > > Jonathan Chetwynd > http://www.peepo.co.uk SVG for people with a learning difficulty > > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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