Re: abbr and acronym

Philip Taylor (Webmaster)  <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:
> Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
>
>> For internationalisation purposes, I'd suggest that the value of read  
>> (or any similar proposed pronounciation hints) should be written in  
>> some phonetic form.
>
> Can that be coupled with language-sensing ?  "Dee Em Zee" would be
> as meaningless to a <Br.E> audience as "Dee Em Zed" would be to
> an <Am.E> one ...
>

I think the author must then stick to the language of his HTML document  
when writing the value of his read= attributes.

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Received on Thursday, 29 March 2007 15:04:13 UTC