- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:37:12 +0900
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, Mark Davis ☕️ <mark@macchiato.com>, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- CC: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>, "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Hello Richard, others, On 2014/04/25 23:53, Richard Ishida wrote: > On 23/04/2014 10:43, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: > ...> The most that should be said is something like: >> >> Where the language cannot be determined with a high degree of >> confidence, language-sensitive actions should be avoided. > > There is another scenario where the language is specifically declared to > be unknown or not a language, eg. lang="" or lang="zxx". In these cases > it seems clear that language specific behaviour should not be applied, > but a default used instead. For lang="", I have to differ. The original use case for lang="" was composition of pages out of data from different sources, where some of these sources would come with language information and some others without. So lang="" isn't an explicit declaration that a text is in no specific language, but just an admission of lack of knowledge. lang='zxx' is explicitly defined as "No linguistic content", so for this case, your argument seems to apply. Regards, Martin.
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