Re: For review: Tagging text with no language

• From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
• Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:33:36 +0200
• To: www-international@w3.org
• Cc: ltru@lists.ietf.org
• Message-ID: <461FF730.2534@xyzzy.claranet.de>

Karen_Broome@spe.sony.com wrote:
 
> With respect to computer language snippets, isn't that what the <code>
> tag is for -- at least in XHTML?

Yes, typically interpreted as switch to a monospaced font.  But maybe
not good enough to convince spell-checkers that they should skip this
part, or to convince screenreaders that what follows might be not in
the inherited xml:lang.

While we're at it, IIRC you wanted a SHOULD NOT about script subtags
for "no linguistic content".  Mark's list of interesting examples also
contains a "zxx" use case, and it's clearly a zxx-Latn example.

Apparently the SHOULD NOT in RFC 4646 about "und" is already dubious,
so better we don't add another shaky SHOULD NOT about scripts for "zxx".

Frank

Received on Friday, 13 April 2007 21:35:30 UTC