- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 09:00:06 -0500
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Ian, My initial suggestions is that the UA could render "Japanese Phrase" XXXX "end Japanese Phrase", where XXX is some characters, or if Japanese is unsupported XXXX is nothing and the "end Japanese phrase" would probably not be needed. I am assuming the user agent is doing this because it cannot render the Japanese. Jon At 07:58 PM 5/6/00 -0400, Ian Jacobs wrote: >Hello, > >Eric Hansen has asked for a clarification of one of the paragraphs >of the Techniques document [1] under checkpoint 2.7 (natural >language switching): > ><BLOCKQUOTE> >Switching natural languages for blocks of content may be more helpful >than >switching for short phrases. In some language combinations (e.g., >Japanese being the primary and English being the secondary or quoted >language), short foreign language phrases are often well-integrated in >the >primary language. Dynamic switching for these short phrases may make >the content sound unnatural and possibly harder to understand. ></BLOCKQUOTE> > >Eric asks what the UA should do in this case... > >I thought that this came from the I18N review of the document at >last call, but I cannot find evidence to that effect. Can someone >remember where this came from? I haven't been able to track down >who sent this technique. > >Thank you, > _ Ian > >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10-TECHS/#gl-content-access > >-- >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >Tel: +1 831 457-2842 >Cell: +1 917 450-8783 Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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