- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:26:42 +0200
- To: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>
- cc: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
> I forgot to include a specific proposal in my previous message concerning
> this issue. More concretely then, I would suggest an optional element
> within the HTML head element which would specify the principal language of
> the document by way of an attribute. In the body of the document there
> would be an optional element that could be included in headings,
> paragraphs, lists or other desired contexts, and which would enclose text
> that was written in any language other than the principal language as
> already defined. This element would also include an attribute in which the
> name of the language would be given.
I think that's exactly what HTML Cougar (next version of HTML)
supports.
Things like
<HTML LANG="fr">
<HEAD>
<TITLE> En Francais </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P> En Francais
<H1 LANG="en"> In English </H1>
</BODY>
</HTML>
> I recall having read that there is a
> standard set of abbreviations for the names of languages but can not
> remember the source of this information.
Dave answered this one: [RFC1766]
"Tags for the Identification of Languages",
by H. Alvestrand, UNINETT, March 1995. This document can
be downloaded from ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt.
Received on Wednesday, 11 June 1997 09:27:28 UTC