It wasn't really a confession... that makes it sound like a crime. I did write a bit quickly at that time, though. In more detail, language tags are signals for the detection; they can be taken into account to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the strength of other signals (like the contents of the text, domain, etc.).
Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* * * * [https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033] * On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 07:37, Andreas Prilop <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Gerrit wrote: > > > So if somebody from Google reads this, > > [...] > > Additionally, if the standard Android web browser could then > > use the html “lang” tag to select the appropriate font, > > it would be even nicer. > > Mark Davis from Google has confessed on this list > http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m01/0273.html > that Google deliberately ignores both the LANG attribute of HTML > and the CHARSET parameter of MIME. > > -- > The schoolboys from Google failed again: > > http://groups.google.com/group/fr.test/browse_thread/thread/8ad6f1e8fbfefaec > >
