At 01:06 PM 3/5/01 -0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>> I would think when locale is added to text run, abiword should check 
>> for the locale and then draw text with the suitable locale using
>
>If by locale you mean encoding information, then locale attribute 
>should *under no circumstances* be added to text run; doing so 
>would defeat the very reason why our text runs are Unicode (so 
>that they would be locale independent). Adding language 
>information by all means, but nothing to do with encodings.

Nice clarification of the semantics of the "lang" property.  

Thanks,
Paul


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