On 25 Jul 98, richard winter wrote:
> does the <lang> attribute actually transcribe the text that follows into
> the language code i input for it? have any of you ever used this one?
Well... not sure if I exactly follow the question (and the answer is moot
because as far as I know NS and MSIE don't support it anyway); but my
understanding of how it *should* work is that the lang attribute would tell
the browser "try to use the quotation marks, ligatures, etc, that are most
appropriate for this language code".
So if I were working in French (as I often do), I might have
<p lang="fr">Le stylo de "ma tante" est sur le table</p>
... with the expectation that the quotation marks would be properly
rendered in the French style (i.e., stylo de <<ma tante>> est...)
Conversely, if in the next paragraph I wanted quotation marks to be
English-style I might have
<h2 lang="en">Clinton a "randy lad", Brits believe</h2>
... which would produce "randy lad".
A nice idea, but unless I'm doing something wrong I haven't seen any
evidence that it actually works in current browsers.
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