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2007 -------
Language tagging is actually already in the draft of the Open Document
specification V.1.2 (see here:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/22887/OpenDocument-v1.2-draft2.odt)

So, I hope by the time it's finalized, OO.o will release a new version with this
feature included soon after. ;)

(Actually, the Language and Country tags are already included in version 1.1.)

The draft version includes Language and Country tags (see: 3.1.5 and 14.9.3),
however, I would propose to also include Script tags, because certain languages
can be written in multiple scripts (e.g. Serbian, Japanese, Mandarin, Minnan),
so that different spell-checking directories might be needed.
I will propose this to the Technical Commitee of Oasis.

Also, I'm not sure if the language/country tag can be applied to independent
characters, or only on paragraph level. I would propose to implement it on
document, table, paragraph and character level.

Example:
in a text, which is tagged as en-US, the user wants to explain a french term.
So, the french term in that paragraph could be tagged as fr-FR. Then the
spell-checking algorithm would know that for the french term it should rather
use the french dictionary for spell-checking, than the US-English dictionary
like for the rest of the text.

Another expample for Script tagging:
In a Mandrin Chinese text written in Simplified Han script (Hans), the user
explains the pronunciation of some characters using Hanyu Pinyin (Latin script
-> Latn). By tagging it with the Latn script tag, the spell-checking algorithm
might want to look in the Mandarin Chinese dictionary for Latin script and check
if the Hanyu Pinyin sequence is actually correct.

And one more example for using Language/Script/Country tags together with fonts:
Supposed a CJKV font includes different variant glyphs used in different regions
and they are tagged as such: Now, a user wants to display the shape differences
in the different regions, by tagging a character (which would maybe normally
display in the traditional Chinese form as used in Hong Kong (zh-Hant-HK) with
the tag for traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan (zh-Hant-TW), the font
renderer should replace the glyph according to the corresponding GSUB table
entry in the font.
For this example I might post more information later.

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