On Aug 22, 2004, at 8:13 am, Sage Olson wrote:
If you specify an xml:lang attribute in the html tag, do you still have to use a meta tag to specify the content-language for the document?
Yes. It you specify xml:lang="ja", you still could send the file as charset="shift_jis" or charset="utf-8". (not a big problem with English, as it only use lower ASCII, but for many other languages, you could end up with weird characters if the browser misinterpret the language encoding in use.)
And you better have the server send the correct headers associated with the file.
PS - IE ignores the xml:lang and lang attributes, just doesn't know they exist.
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