New article: Indicating the language of a link destination

This article[1] is based on text that was originally published in the WG 
Note, Internationalization Best Practices: Specifying Language in XHTML 
& HTML Content. The Note will be updated in due course, at which time 
the material will be removed from the Note.

The article discusses some of the pros and cons for signalling the 
language of a page which a link points to, if that page is not in the 
same language as the current content. It also looks at how people have 
done this in the past using the hreflang attribute.

Because of its history, the article has not been through the normal 
review process, but comments can be sent using the feedback form.

A future version of the article may look at alternative approaches and 
implementations, such as those used for European languages.



[1] http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-link-lang

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/

Received on Friday, 6 September 2013 14:29:24 UTC