- From: (wrong string) äper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:20:39 +0200
- To: "Reuven Nisser" <rnisser@ofek-liyladenu.org.il>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Reuven Nisser <rnisser@ofek-liyladenu.org.il>: > > However, there are times where the change of language is "known" by the > character set used in the HTML. For example, English is using Ansi 7 bit > characters but Hebrew & Arabic occupy the upper 128-255. [...] > In this case, the text language can be derived for the text itself. Isn't Hebrew (or Arabic) transcribed with Latin letters still Hebrew (or Arabic)? > However, if inside such a text I would like to switch to German, I will need > to use "LANG=ge". The two-letter ISO 639 language code for modern German is "de" (for "deutsch"). Three-letters is either "deu" or "ger", but HTML mandates the two-letter version if exists one.
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