I found this on the first try at altavista using "<lang>".
The quoted text below is from:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html4.html#new
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"This is clever, because it helps the search engines understand different
languages as being different languages rather than just misspelled
English. First an Example:
<SPAN LANG="es">Hola! Como esta?</SPAN>
Those of you who remember your high school Spanish know that phrase
above loosely translates to "Hi, How ya doin'?".
Now, contrary to what you might be thinking, the LANG sub-command does
not translate. You must still write the text in the native toungue. The
LANG command just allows the search engines to recognize that section as
Spanish text.
In case you're wondering, here are some other codes: ar (Arabic), de
(German), el (Greek), fr (French), he (Hebrew), hi (Hindi), ja
(Japanese), it (Italian), nl (Dutch), pt (Portuguese), ur (Urdu), ru
(Russian), sa (Sandskirt), zh (Chinese).
Yes, there is also a code set aside if you wish to denote a language
that doesn't really exist, like Pig-Latin or Klingon. Follow the same
formal as above except add x- before the name. Like so: LANG="x-ubbee
dubbie". The "X" means it's an experimental language."
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This is good, I have a site that besides English has some pages in
French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Now I should be able to increase
the hits some. If anyone wants to see it is at
http://www.youper.com/jumping/ , if you know any of these languages
tell me if altavista did a good translate job. One funny thing about
the different languages(to me) is that it generates email that is totaly
greek to me, that is until altavista translates it for me if it can. Then
I write a reply best as I can then translate and send it. One time I was
asked how many languages I speak after replying to a German message. I
replied English and AltaVista. I didn't get an answer. :-(
Ron
At 07:00 PM 7/25/98 -0700, richard winter wrote:
>Hi...
>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?
>
>thanks
>rick
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