QA of HTML 4.0 translations

Which is the appropriate mailing list for this subject?  Is the w3c-html-wg 
list now closed?

I'm somewhat concerned at having seen no QA criteria regarding translations 
of the HTML 4.0 specification.  Presumably, any links to such translations 
will carry a W3C disclaimer regarding the correctness of the translation.  
Hence, I'm not too worried about that aspect.

There are, however, other aspects where bad examples could easily be set by 
such translations.  I have in mind the possible abuse of HTML and of the HTML 
spec at a lower level than the visible text and am thinking of issues such as:

   -  the use of illegal or incorrect language codes or their omission,

   -  the use of illegal or incorrect meta charset tags or their omission,

   -  the use of illegal or incorrect bidi constructs or their omission,

   -  the use of illegal or incorrect NCRs or entity names.

Some of these errors could be caught by automated scripts.  Has any thought 
been given to producing such scripts or to other QA measures?

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