RE: Comment on working draft "Specifying Language in XHTML and HTML Content"

As I mentioned before, the version of this document at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20050224/ is well out of
date, and the current edit version is at
http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html .  Please
comment on the current edit version only.

Thank you.
RI

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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CE Whitehead [mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: 23 March 2007 18:53
> To: cewcathar@hotmail.com
> Cc: ishida@w3.org; www-international@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Comment on working draft "Specifying Language in 
> XHTML and HTML Content"
> 
> Hi,  my comments that I sent before because they were 
> confusing; here they are again;
> 
> (I put my comments online too
> http://www.geocities.com/quaiouestenglish/w3c/CommentsonIntern
> ationalization.html
> )
> 
> 
> Comments on: "Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying 
> Language in 
> XHTML & HTML Content" 
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-i18n-html-tech-lang-20050224/)
> 
>     * Section 3
>           o Section 3.1 par 4 {NOTE: Below par 4 you might 
> discuss the 
> language code:
> 
>             mul
>             which might be used audience language only, and 
> only under 
> certain circumstances: (but I would never recommend it for 
> text-processing 
> language!--see note below:} "There are also pages where the 
> navigational 
> information, including the page title, is in one language but 
> the real 
> content of the page is in another. While this is not necessarily good 
> practice, it doesn't change the fact that the language of the 
> intended 
> audience is usually that of the content, regardless of the 
> language at the 
> top of the document source."
> 
>             {ADD ??}
> 
>             > "A case where the audience and text processing 
> languages 
> differ slightly is an online foreign language lesson, written 
> in a single 
> language (immersion) but aimed at speakers of multiple languages; for 
> example, the text-processing language might be only:
> 
>             fr
> 
>             (or only en , or only ar), while the audience 
> language might be 
> declared as:
> 
>             mul (multiple)
> 
>             or as both:
> 
>             mul, fr
> 
>             (since presumably the audience speaks some French)."
>     * Section 5
>           o Best Practice 1, "Note"
> 
>             "rather than an attribute on the html element"
> 
>             > "rather than attribute[s] on the html element"
> 
>             {COMMENT: there's more than one attribute 
> sometimes, as both the 
> lang and xml:lang attributes may be used.}
>           o Best Practice 1, Par 8/9 (last Par before Background 
> Information/Resources)
> 
>             "The relevance will depend on the structure used for the 
> document."
> 
>             {COMMENT: "relevance" is confusing. Do you mean 
> "usefulness" or 
> "effectiveness," or do you mean "location"?}
>           o ??? Best Practice 2 "Discussion" par 3
> 
>             "Although we would normally recommended to 
> declare the default 
> text-processing language in the html tag, since only one 
> language can be 
> defined at a time when using attributes, there may appear to 
> be little point 
> in doing so if a document has separate content to support 
> multilingual 
> audiences. It may be more appropriate to begin labeling the 
> language on 
> lower level elements, where the actual text is in one 
> language or another."
>             {add to the end??}
> 
>             > ", and to just specify the character set in the 
> html tag."
> 
>             {COMMENT: I'm new to some of this, you can 
> declare the character 
> set in the document type declaration and you can declare it 
> in the meta tags 
> can you declare it without a language tag such as en or 
> mul??? SORRY!!}
>           o Best Practice 4: Identifying changes in language 
> within the 
> document, "How to", par 2/3 ???
> 
>             "The lang attribute can be used on all HTML 
> elements . . . "
> 
>             > "The lang and xml:lang attributes can be used 
> on all . . . "
> 
>             {COMMENT: There is no mention of the xml: lang 
> attribute in this 
> paragraph. though not only can it can be used on all HTML 
> elements; it is 
> also used on XML elements.}
> 
> 
> (I am still working on the French translation (sections 5 on, 
> as I think we 
> got feedback on the first part--
> and may have more--
> but if anyone wants to translate sections 6-8 into French for 
> the purpose of 
> getting comments, that would be great too as I may not get it 
> done that 
> fast; have other things to do; sorry; it's summer and not 
> that shady here 
> for the kitty who likes to sit in the car when I'm at the library)
> 
> --C. E. Whitehead
> cewcathar@hotmail.com
> 
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