Re: French?! English!

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> 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

Received on Tuesday, 25 September 2018 12:48:05 UTC