- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 07:00:14 +0100
- To: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
On 25/09/2015 02:37, Martin J. Dürst wrote: > A simple example of what I mean: > > <ol lang='en'> > <li>First</li> > <li lang='fr'>Second</li> > <li>Third</li> > </ol> > > If this is rendered as: > > 1. First > 2. Second > 3. Third > > and the numbers are spoken as numbers, then I'd expect this to be read: > > 'one' First > 'deux' Second > 'three' Third > > and not: > > 'one' First > 'deux' Second > 'trois' Third > > which would be what "the language most recently declared" would imply. Martin, i think the language of the numbering should be that of the linguistic context of the list as a whole, and not determined by the content of the list item. In many cases that will quite possibly be the language of the document, but in the case of, say, a bilingual document in Quebec with parallel content in both english and french, or a forum with multilingual responses that are language tagged, etc. then the list's linguistic context may be determined by language information at the sub-document level. I can't see a justification for the content of the list item to influence the pronunciation of the bullet, and i think it would be confusing to readers to change the language of the numbering. > Another question: Are there languages where we need to be able to > distinguish between reading numbers as ordinals and as cardinals? Or > languages where there are other distinctions between numbers that may > have to be made? I suspect that there are some languages where ordinals are used rather than cardinals, but i expect that in that case the audio generated by the implementation would just take that into account naturally, no? ri
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