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RE: [dita] Proposed changes to the xml:lang proposal

From: Gershon Joseph
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:48:00 -0000

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Subject: RE: [dita] Proposed changes to the xml:lang proposal




From: "Gershon L Joseph" <[email protected]>
To: "'Eliot Kimber'" <[email protected]>,<[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:51:08 +0300






We discussed this thread at length in today's translation subcommittee meeting. The suggested rewrites are not in sync with the W3C and Unicode specs (we have representatives from both groups on the SC). However, we agree that since applications cannot correctly read the language from the characters, we should move this paragraph from the Note to Vendors section to the Recommended Usage section, and rephrase it to apply to authors and translators (the humans, not the machines). Here's the rewrite:

When working on a document that contains strings of characters from different languages, the author should use the xml:lang attribute to identify the boundaries of each language.


Best Regards,
Gershon