Thanks Richard - we did have that trouble with Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Same flag - didn't really know how to differentiate them.
Cheers! On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:22:18 -0000, Richard Ishida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jason, Paul, > > Apart from the fact that a user would not always like to see their language > associated with the flag of another country, there are other reasons for not > using flags. If you want to specify Swiss German, vs Swiss French vs. Swiss > Italian sites, you need a second level of choice than that offered by the > national flag. Best use the name of the language in the language and script > of the country. (For help with this see > http://people.w3.org/rishida/names/languages.html ) > > Note also that the language expressed in the DOCTYPE should not be changed - > the DTD is in English. It's the html language attribute that you should > change. (I had to explain this to someone recently, so thought I'd mention > it.) > > At the W3C we have been working on the ins and outs of language declarations > over the past months (from a content author's perspective). It wasn't as > straightforward as we thought! Please take a look at Authoring Techniques > for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Specifying the language of content > 1.0 [1] for the latest in-edit version of our recommendations. (There's > also an attempt to make it easier to get advice on this via a summary page > at [2]). > > For an example of how we do this (on pages that are actually > content-language negotiated too), see [3]. > > Hope that helps, > RI > > [1] http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html > [2] > http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/outline/html-authoring-outline > .html > [3] http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset > > ============ > Richard Ishida > W3C > > contact info: > http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ > > W3C Internationalization: > http://www.w3.org/International/ > > Publication blog: > http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Foss > > Sent: 14 November 2004 20:56 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [WSG] International Pages Check > > > > Thanks for the link Paul - that's a good one. > > > > Rick: Thanks for checking it out. I thought about the caption > > idea, and at first thought "yeah, that makes sense", but then > > I figured that if you don't recognise the flag, there's a > > fair chance you won't speak the language anyway! Or am I just > > being belligerent? If I'm going to add captions they should > > be in the foreign language? > > > > Cheers > > Jason. > > > > PS is the server still slow? Temporary issue I hope... > > > > > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 03:27:24 -0700, Paul Jones > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is no language identified in the DOCTYPE and the > > <html> tag (I > > > only checked the Spanish and Mandarin pages). > > > > > > |This link may be helpful:| > > > > > |http://diveintoaccessibility.org/day_7_identifying_your_language.html > > > || > > > || > > > |Paul| > > > || > > > || > > > || > > > > > > > > > Jason Foss wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > This site is still well and truly in draft stage (I know > > - the menu > > > > is still up the spout!) but looking for feedback > > specifically on the > > > > internationalisation of the following pages: > > > > http://www.rrdl.com.au/cqieta/info-german.php > > > > http://www.rrdl.com.au/cqieta/info-swedish.php > > > > http://www.rrdl.com.au/cqieta/info-spanish.php > > > > http://www.rrdl.com.au/cqieta/info-mandarin.php > > > > http://www.rrdl.com.au/cqieta/info-cantonese.php > > > > http://www.rrdl.com.au/cqieta/info-japanese.php > > > > http://www.rrdl.com.au/cqieta/info-korean.php > > > > http://www.rrdl.com.au/cqieta/info-thai.php > > > > > > > > First time I've had a crack at foreign character sets - > > any feedback > > > > on this aspect of the site would be much appreciated! > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > ****************************************************** > > > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > > > > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > > > ****************************************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Jason Foss > > Almost Anything Desktop Publishing > > www.almost-anything.com.au > > Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] North > > Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia "We can do almost anything!" > > ****************************************************** > > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > > ****************************************************** > > > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > -- Jason Foss Almost Anything Desktop Publishing www.almost-anything.com.au Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia "We can do almost anything!" ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
