Although WCAG 1,0 and WCAG 2,0 require language tagging.
On Wed, April 15, 2009 5:39 am, Mark Davis wrote:
> It is a chicken & egg problem. Web page creators will only bother to set
> the
> language (or set it different than the default) if the language setting
> makes a difference. Because so much content is badly tagged, all of the
> interpreters of the pages end up having to disregard that information, and
> compute the language heuristically ("language detection"). Because of that
> the language setting doesn't make a difference, so the creators don't
> bother
> setting it.
Although the question becomes how many languages can you identify
heuristically?
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Andrew Cunningham
Research and Development Coordinator
Vicnet
State Library of Victoria
Australia
andr...@vicnet.net.au
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