John Cowan 2008-05-08 06.16: > Peter Constable scripsit: > > > "The values of the attribute are language identifiers as defined by > > [IETF RFC 3066]<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#RFC1766>, > > Tags for the Identification of Languages, or its successor; in addition, > > the empty string may be specified." > > That is meant to mean that the value of each xml:lang attribute is a > single language tag. > In the W3 L18N list I aired - without response [*] - the option of having a single language tag that covered several languages. Something like xml:lang="mul-en-fr", to say that it was multilingual English and French. It ought not no be necessary to be very spesific about script and/or geography etc in such a tag. It would at least have to work a bit differently from th eother tags. [*] (Though I got support from some for the very idea about specifying several languages for one element.) > > It's not completely clear to me from this if xml:lang="en,fr" > > is acceptable. > > It isn't. > This means that we can say xml:lang="mul" and encompass all the langugeas of the world. But not any two or more languages. With xml:lang="mul-en-fr" one coud be more spesific. -- leif halvard sillli _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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