thanks...great site....
I was confused from the entry in the Hip Pocket Guide to HTML 4
pg 44
ISBN:0-7645-3196-4
You helped clear it up..
thank you
rick
Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> I found this on the first try at altavista using "<lang>".
>
> The quoted text below is from:
> http://www.htmlgoodies.com/html4.html#new
>
> START
> "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."
> END
>
> 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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