Re: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-03 Thread Jan Brasna
Vaska, you¨re still mixing those: I think you are mixing two things which should be separated. The first problem is the language of the page (defined in the header) The second problem is how to create a non-ascii character He is right. It is a tricky business because for a French typist I

Re: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-03 Thread Vaska . WSG
Vaska, you¨re still mixing those: I think you are mixing two things which should be separated. The first problem is the language of the page (defined in the header) The second problem is how to create a non-ascii character He is right. I've already identified that I will be using utf-8.

Re[4]: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-03 Thread Martin Heiden
Patrick! Am Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2005 um 18:11:30 haben Sie geschrieben: I agree with you in all points but this one. Even in XHTML 1.0 the lang-Attribute is needed. At the risk of splitting very fine hairs even further: *needed* or *allowed* ? I'd tend to think the latter... You are right!

[WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-02 Thread Vaska . WSG
Am I allowed to ask about non-CSS things here? In particular, I'm trying to deal with how to handle inputs of Chinese characters via some forms. What I'm wondering is... - will utf-8 suffice? - do I need to specify html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang='en' lang='en' as ZN? is

Re: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-02 Thread Ben Ward
The language in your html element should be the language of the page. If you have a section of the page (be that a parapraph, form, anything) which uses a different language then you can add a lang and xml:lang attribute to that as well. HTML is generally rather good at doing multi-lingual

Re: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-02 Thread Vaska . WSG
It's for a multilanguage site and base language will be English. Everything on the form will be English except the actual input (textarea). Would it hurt anything if I just kept the lang declaration as EN in the header? Or, since the input will be Chinese should it be ZN? Or, do I need to

Re: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-02 Thread Juergen Auer
On 2 Jun 2005 at 16:49, Vaska.WSG wrote: It's for a multilanguage site and base language will be English. Everything on the form will be English except the actual input (textarea). Hello Vaska, I think you are mixing two things which should be separated. The first problem is the

RE: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-02 Thread Peter Firminger
Hi Vaska, Am I allowed to ask about non-CSS things here? WSG is not just a CSS list. Your question is entirely appropriate as it is dealing with firm Web Standards. In particular, I'm trying to deal with how to handle inputs of Chinese characters via some forms. What I'm wondering is...

Re: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages

2005-06-02 Thread Johan Steenkamp
] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Date: Fri, Jun-3-2005 2:05 AM Subject: [WSG] Regarding foreign languages Am I allowed to ask about non-CSS things here? In particular, I'm trying to deal with how to handle inputs of Chinese characters via some forms. What I'm wondering is... - will utf-8