- From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:32:29 -0800
- To: Jens Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
On 2/3/2009 10:32 AM, Jens Meiert wrote: > Just one and a half quick notes regarding "Internationalization Best > Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML & HTML Content" [1]: > > * There shouldn't be a space in 'xmlns= > "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"' (two occurrences). > * The document uses "ie." instead of "i.e." and "eg." instead of > "e.g.". I'm not a native speaker, but most references I can find > prefer "i.e." [2] and "e.g." [3], something that seems to be more > popular too. > Replacing "i.e." by "that is" and "e.g." by "for example," would avoid this issue, altogether. That's what the Unicode Standard does, for example. As do many other publications. A./ > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-i18n-html-tech-lang-20070412/ > [2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/i.e. > [3] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e.g. > >
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