Re: Quotes in German

• From: Frank Wegmann <wegmann@linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
• Date: Fri, 12 Jul 96 11:58 WET DST
• To: CTaylor@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil
• Cc: www-html@w3.org
• Message-Id: <m0uefw2-000XT4C@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

> Would there be a problem if the Browser displayed &quote; 
> using the german glyphs if it was a german browser and 
>  " if it was an english browser?

This would prevent quoted german text from being displayed
correctly in a non-german browser, and naturally vice versa:
I'd get english text with german quotes when using a german
browser. Why not using the lang attribute of Cougar's BDO
element to indicate the language. Then you could go along
with the <q> tag that you mentioned:

>  <p> she said <q>Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side </q>

and use the appropriate glyphs for begin and end of quote.
Unfortunately, I don't know if this fits in the current model
of HTML, though.


Frank Wegmann

Received on Friday, 12 July 1996 06:00:46 UTC