- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:46:41 +0900
- To: Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>, www-international@w3.org
At 14:10 01/09/25 -0700, Yves Arrouye wrote: >If you want to use many languages in the same XML document, it is most >useful, just as in HTML, to mark the language of content using xml:lang. Very definitely true. >This tagging will not only enable processors to extract the relevant >information for different users / purposes, but in the kind of CJK >languages, it is very important to know the language in order to select the >appropriate glyphs for unified Han characters. This is somewhat of an issue, but it is often overstated. In general, as long as the context is low-resolution plain text, the difference is not that important. For better quality, style sheets selecting the desired fonts are the right way to go. Of course such a selection can be based on the value of the xml:lang attribute. Regards, Martin.
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