Re: identifying language changes

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:57:08 +0200, Christophe Strobbe  
<christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:

...
> Several people provided arguments against marking up language changes  
> for each foreign name and word.

If I recall correctly, the compelling arguments at the time were about  
braille requirements. I presume, however, that automatic language  
recognition can be applied about as successfully to braille as to voice -  
I wonder if anyone has any practical experience.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999JanMar/0182.html is a  
thread about it.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999AprJun/0091.html  
followed by  
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999AprJun/0105.html and  
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/1999AprJun/0128.html is the  
discussion in response to a Propose Recomendation comment (the process at  
W3C was somewhat simpler back then).

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990217/#gl-abbreviated-and-foreign  
is where there was a different checkpoint.  
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/meetings/19990225.html#lang records the meeting  
that decided to make this a P1 requirement. It was added sometime after  
the pulication of http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-0414

... so if you're a history buff, you might enjoy searching for more  
information about what we thought we knew back then...

cheers

Chaals

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