- From: Internationalization Core Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:33:56 +0000
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I18N-ISSUE-144: HTML5 is missing attribute for specifying translatability of content [HTML5] http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/144 Raised by: Richard Ishida On product: HTML5 This issue is being raised to track a bugzilla entry. The description below is by Jirka Kosek: Problem: A lot of web content has to be provided in many languages - usually it is done through machine translation either by website owner or by user using some translation widget like Google Translate or Microsoft Translator. However during automatic translation usually more then it is desirable is translated. Things like program listings, terms, names, etc should not be translated. This problem can be solved by providing flag which can exclude element content from translation process. This can greatly increase precision and usefulness of machine translation of a web content. Solution: New global attribute "translate" with permitted values "yes" and "no" should be added. Rationale: Having such attribute is best practice for localization of content (see eg. http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-i18n-bp/#DevTransOver) Such attribute is currently supported by Microsoft Translator and there are already pages using it and relying on the functionality. Please add comments to bugzilla: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12417
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