[Bug 28255] [webvtt] no provision for indicating overall content language(s) [I18N-ISSUE-420]

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28255

--- Comment #8 from Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> ---
(In reply to Silvia Pfeiffer from comment #7)
> (In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #6)
> > (In reply to Silvia Pfeiffer from comment #5)
> > > (In reply to Philip Jägenstedt from comment #4)
> > > > We don't have a cue-level language setting, so we'd have to add that before
> > > > DEFAULTS could save the day.
> > > 
> > > We have a <lang> tag.
> > 
> > Yes, but that isn't a cue-level setting. Having "DEFAULTS lang:en" map to
> > <lang> in some way seems odd, how would that be written?
> 
> I misunderstood: I thought you referred to author ability to overwrite a
> default language in a cue.
> 
> What is the problem with DEFAULTS lang and mapping to cue-level settings? In
> my mind, providing a DEFAULTS lang sets the language for all the cues.
> Currently, that language is defined by <track srclang>, so there already
> should be a language setting on cues.

The problem is that there isn't a cue-level setting, but we could add one.

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Received on Wednesday, 10 June 2015 17:27:41 UTC