Re: International Document Server Support

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From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-id: <9312071141.AA10450@manuel.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: International Document Server Support 
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 11:41:38 GMT
Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.36.1.1]

How should we support switching between laguages and character sets
within documents?

I am including an optional CHARSET attribute in nearly all elements in
the next revision to the HTML+ DTD. This will allow browsers to switch
char sets for a paragraph etc,  e.g. <P charset="ISO-2022-JP"> ....
as described in RFC 1468 which is used for Japanese character encoding
for email and network news.

Should I also include a LANGUAGE attribute for the ISO3316 language codes?

-- Dave

BTW the new DTD will infer missing <P> elements following headers etc.
and so remove worries for once and for all as to whether they are
containers or separators.