The W3C Internationalization Activity has published an updated version of its Working Draft:
Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization: Specifying the language of content 1.0 At: http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-lang/ Follow the ongoing edits at: http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html Specifying the language of content is useful for a wide number of applications, from linguistically sensitive searching to applying language-specific display properties. In some cases the potential applications for language information are still waiting for implementations to catch up, whereas in others, such as detection of language by voice browsers, it is a necessity today. Marking up language information is something that can and should be done today. Without it, it is not possible to take advantage of any of these applications. This document is one of a series of documents being developed that provide HTML authors with techniques for developing internationalized HTML using XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.01, supported by CSS1, CSS2 and some aspects of CSS3. It focuses specifically on advice about specifying the language of content. It is produced by the Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group of the W3C Internationalization Activity. See the Internationalization site at http://www.w3.org/International/ You can find various news filters and RSS feeds relating to the work of the Internationalization Activity at http://www.w3.org/International/log/description ============ 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/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
