<quote who="Andrew Cunningham"> > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> There are important differences between "meta > http-equiv='content-language'" and "lang" and "xml:lang" attributes > > the "lang" and "xml:lang" attributes can only contain a single language But describe the element they apply to and its children unless another lang is specified. <p lang="en-us">Her choice of color, left a certain <span lang="fr">je ne sais quoi</span></p> > "meta http-equiv='content-language'" can contain a list of languages Which are the natural languages of the intended audience, which are not always the same as the languages used in the document. If we go back to the earlier example, even though it is written in American English, it is intended for all English speakers, and despite having a splash of French in the text, it isn't the version intended for French speakers. Content-Language: en <p lang="en-us">Her choice of color, left a certain <span lang="fr">je ne sais quoi</span></p> ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
