On Sep 8, 2007, at 2:40 AM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
Its passible to have metadata in more than one language, but it came become problematic. Anyway the title element should realistically only have one langauge.
Hi Andrew, I am curious, is there guideline from WCAG that state there should only be one language for the title?
I am trying to look at this matter with Search engine perspective. For a bilingual or multilingual site which has more than one language in the page, an author may make good use for having title as as well as other metedata in different languages. Although search engine giant google can search sites in any language but it maybe prudent to add special treatment for other native search engine that specializes in its native language, for example, a search engine from India maybe more capable in its Search algorithm with 18 Indian languages as well as its neighbors' languages such as Nepali, Urdu and Tibetan; whereas, baidu, a popular Chinese search engine not just does a better job for Chinese site searching but other languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian and Uyghur because they official part of China territories.
If a site contains English and one or more of the above mentioned languages, it's likely at least x% of users who visit the site may use a native search engine, thus a valid reason to have more than one languages in the metadata.
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