- From: Bert Bos <bert@www10.w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 18:51:56 +0100
- To: www-international@www10.w3.org
RFC 2070 (html-i18n) says that the LANG attribute is only for natural languages, not for computer languages, but recently I've started wondering why. It may happen in a text that there is a word or phrase that is not in any human language, such as the name of somebody, or some code. HTML has some mark-up for the computer code: it can be put inside <CODE>, but there is no element for the name of a person. Maybe LANG should be extended to cover - computer languages (Pascal, C, HTML, CSS,...) - proper names (language "none"?) - "unknown" and "any" languages The last two would be useful, resp., for a text that is in some language, but the author doesn't know which, and for a text that is the same in every language. An example would be the SI units mm, s, etc. Comments? Bert
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