- From: Carrasco Benitez Manuel <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 12:43:15 -0000
- To: "'www-international@w3.org'" <www-international@w3.org>
The "redraw" seems to be moving to "how to indicate the language in an HTML document". This was discussed at the begining of the year on the list and during Unicode Conference at Mainz in March 1997 and there was a rough consensus. A resume follows. The recommended place to indicate the language is <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" Content="fr"> More than one language could be indicated, but the first one was the default. If more than one language was present, the other are just an indication that more languages are in the document but they must be identify with LANG. Otherwise the default is assumed. <HTML LANG=xx> is just a modification of <META ...>, a <BODY LANG=xx> is a modification of <HTML LANG=xx>, etc. One of the reason to recommend <META ...> was that it could accomodate multilingual documents (and bilingual documents in particular, common case in Canada) as more than one language can be indicated. <HTML> allows only for one language. Browsers reading the docs directly, as oppose to getting them from a server, should use the language indication in the docs. Regards Tomas
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