- From: (wrong string) çois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:02:07 -0400
- To: <www-amaya@w3.org>
Vincent QUINT wrote: > If your documents are written in French, I suggest you set a > lang attribute on the <html> or <body> element. Use the Attribute > button to do that. Then, when you save a document, the encoding > is added to the XML declaration and a <meta http-equiv...> element > is generated with the right charset. Bad idea, IMHO. Charset is mostly orthogonal to language and one cannot be inferred from the other in general. As for the <meta http-equiv...>, it should always be there, whether the user specifies a language or not (there is always a charset!) -- François Yergeau
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