- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:06:18 +0100
- To: <www-international@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Deborah Cawkwell'" <deborah.cawkwell@bbc.co.uk>
Can anyone think of a general way of testing whether the language declared in an html tag is recognized by a user agent - that we can use in a test suite? This would be particularly useful to test, for example, whether the langauge declaration in a meta statement has any impact on the document - my assumption is not, but I'd like to be sure. The difficulty is finding a test that doesn't rely on some other thing working. We could use a :lang selector to test for recognition, except that the test would fail on IE because :lang doesn't work. We could maybe check whether fonts are applied in CJK (see for example [1]), but we can't guarrantee that that behaviour is widespread either. Maybe a JavaScript routine could look at the DOM? Any ideas? RI [1] http://www.w3.org/International/tests/sec-cjk-fonts.html ============ Richard Ishida W3C contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ W3C Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/
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