- From: Kai Jaeger <kai@aplteam.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:47:01 +0100
- To: mike@w3.org
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
[..] > For that case, I recommend you use <html lang=zxx> Excellent point. If only the document would not carry <html lang="en"> ;) > See https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-no-language > > That’s because the content of that particular document is overwhelmingly “ > non-linguistic”, and that’s what the “zxx” language subtag means. > > > but it also contains comments, and those are all in English. > > Unfortunately, in the case where the content of a document is largely non- > linguistic, the language-detector backend that the HTML checker uses does a > very poor job of guessing the language and ends up reporting false positives. > To the language detector, the few instances of an actual human language in > the content get lost among the dominant non-linguistic content. > > -- > Michael[tm] Smith https://people.w3.org/mike
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