- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:31:27 -0400 (EDT)
- To: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org (WAI Working Group)
to follow up on what Dave Raggett said: > On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Jason White wrote: > > > it is necessary to be able to ascertain the language in which a > > document is written. > > [and fragments within documents]. > > HTML Cougar basically subsumes RFC 2070 including the LANG > attribute which is intended for this purpose. Thanks for explaining this. May I check to see if I got the story straight? In the current W3C recommendation (14-Jan-1997) there is no support for language identification other than by putting an HTTP-EQUIV META tag in the HEAD which is perforce for the whole document. We can see in the Cougar DTD (that's all we can see) that LANG is a generic attribute. This means that it can be used on P, BLOCQUOTE, and generally enough varieties of container to handle mixed-language documents. Is that substantially correct? -- Al Gilman
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