- From: <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 17:05:48 +0000
- To: Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com>
- Cc: g.bartol@comune.prato.it, www-international@w3.org
On 27/12/2001 14:39:21 Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> 2001-12-27 14:04:38, Gabriele Bartolini
> <g.bartol@comune.prato.it>:
[...]
> > 3 - How to set the main language of an HTML document
> >
> > I also have another question regarding the setting of the
> > language of an HTML document. How can I set it and through
> > which tags?
[...]
> > Or should I use a generic tag with the lang
> > attribute properly set? Do you think that :
> >
> > <html lang="it">
> > [ here goes the document ]
> > </html>
> >
> > works?
>
> Yes. (AFAIK, it doesn't have any effect in current browsers,
> but it's the correct way to specifiy the language, in addition
> to the HTTP 'Content-Language' header, of course.)
I agree that this is the correct approach.
AFAIK, IE uses the document language to select between Han
fonts.
Search engines may use the document language to increase
precision.
Misha
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