Re: Language Markup
lilley (lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk)
Mon, 31 Jul 95 07:01:59 EDT
>
> > However, here the need is not to distinguish dialects but to distinguish
> > major language divisions so as to know what font to use for one of the
> > "unified" characters. So the value could well be restricted to that cited
> > above, s.v. LANG attribute.
> >
> > Would someone (Albert?) like to construct a counterargument that
> > en-cockney and the like are desirable in HTML markup? in the absence
> > of any standard or common list of values following the hyphen?
>
> My reasoning was more simple-minded: I wanted to be consistent
> with HTTP, and use other RFCs if possible. It doesn't seem like
> the extra generality does great harm, but I'm not inclined
> to argue the point one way or the other, especially as I don't
> know the history of that RFC.
>
> I would suggest that language might effect other presentation
> attributes besides font in a "smart" browser... someone raised
> the question of different quoting styles in one of the lists
> (though maybe this is locale (a la ANSI C) rather than language).
>
> --
> Albert Lunde Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu
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