- From: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:40:43 -0500
- To: erik@vanderpoel.org
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Hi, thanks, I've been corrected. Word is the software of course; where I am we do not have Front Page; wish we did; but it probably would handle the capitalization the same way I bet; have not looked at it in a while. >From: "Erik van der Poel" <erik@vanderpoel.org> >To: "CE Whitehead" <cewcathar@hotmail.com> >CC: www-international@w3.org >Subject: Re: Microsoft's Upper Case Language Tags >Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 11:35:54 -0800 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]) by >bay0-mc5-f7.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444); Sat, 4 >Nov 2006 11:35:54 -0800 >Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n15so1823422nfc for ><cewcathar@hotmail.com>; Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:35:54 -0800 (PST) >Received: by 10.78.149.15 with SMTP id w15mr4544309hud.1162668954046; > Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:35:54 -0800 (PST) >Received: by 10.78.145.20 with HTTP; Sat, 4 Nov 2006 11:35:54 -0800 (PST) >X-Message-Info: LsUYwwHHNt371EE//ESO3osXjgE4i3c9WKDpPA3PeYM= >DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; >d=gmail.com; >h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; > >b=PUF16ZJ8/xyVZ7zGnqMCSK05123C3ct95YR9C/pD/A6rymJTOTp9wUw2aLJ1fdqD5owT3e5ukGZ4F17NXVogJEKHdgg/YLxsS0TEIzYLB9QVYRt+f/m7Dd8//UeCG/uRIcS90WGfxEp5YIlrMtrKCWCPCx/9CCwTTGVUPVLC67E= >References: <BAY114-F1394A97C249025C4FE0C80B3FD0@phx.gbl> >X-Google-Sender-Auth: 39ad618aff6c1a94 >Return-Path: erikvanderpoel@gmail.com >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Nov 2006 19:35:55.0104 (UTC) >FILETIME=[71D8FE00:01C70048] > >Language tags are case-insensitive: > >ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4646.txt > >EN and en should be treated the same way. Which Microsoft software are >you referring to? Front Page? Word? > >Erik > >On 11/4/06, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>This is an incredibly stupid question, don't know if I can get an answer; >>but Microsoft's language tags that it inserts in html code (the tags >>Microsoft inserts in the body section of an html document; not in the >>headers where my version of Microsoft is inserting numbers; I'm not sure >>what is going on with the numeric codes since these header tags seem to be >>set for both cases where ansi or bidi is the standard used for the font >>but >>this is still beyond me ) created using Microsoft are always upper case >>(the >>language code, as well as the region code are both upper case; the >>language >>code is all upper case): >> >>body lang=EN-US >> >>whereas your recommendations are currently to use lower case for the >>language itself; upper case for the country: >> >>HTML lang="en-US" >> >>or DIV lang="en-US" >> >>This is easily fixed, but will Microsoft's upper case language tags ever >>cause any problems? >>Why does Microsoft not lower case its tags? Is there any reason? >> >>Thanks for any indulgence in explaining this. >> >>--C. E. Whitehead >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free >>trip! >>http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-us&hmtagline >> >> >> _________________________________________________________________ Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/
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