- From: Martin J Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:26:14 +0100 (MET)
- To: Davidb@accentsoft.com (David Baron)
- Cc: rosenne@NetVision.net.il, www-international@w3.org
David Baron writes: >What LANG actually does in many situations is still >undefined! That is left undefined on purpose. LANG says that some portion of the HTML document is in a certain language. That might be completely ignored without too much bad consequences by a low-end browser, or used in sophisticated ways by some high-end browser. It's basically something that stylesheets, browsers, and users together have to decide. It also depends on the relative positioning, i.e. a French quote in an English text is likely to get English-style quotation marks for typographical consistency, and so on. For special services such as search tools and text-to-speach-conversion, there are other things to consider. What is important is that mechanisms such as stylesheets have possibilities to hook in language information. >(Of course, Miscrosoft's browser being the only >widely distributed one with stylesheets and since they >have daintily eliminated all language/codepage oriented >stuff from their agenda, it seems, this work needs be done >outside of Gate's domain) Please don't confuse language and codepage! Regards, Martin.
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