On Sun, September 9, 2007 3:33 pm, Tee G. Peng wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2007, at 2:40 AM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew, I am curious, is there guideline from WCAG that state
> there should only be one language for the title?
>
Hi Tee,
since Patrick has answered it, I'll jump to
your last point:
>
> 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.
>
>From an internationalization
perspective its important to always know what language you are working
with and anyone time.
For HTML and XHTML elements you can only
declare a single language for an element. This declaration not only
applies to contents off an element, but also to the values of associated
attributes of the element.
In the case of META elements, the
element will inherit the language declared on the HTML element or you can
declare an alternative language using the lang attribute.
Either way the values used in the meta element should be in the
inherited or declared language.
Also Chinese is one of the
small number of languages where adding or leaving out the language tag can
potentially effect the rendering of the text within a web browser. So
always a good idea to language tag in this case.
Andrew
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Andrew Cunningham
Research and Development Coordinator
Vicnet
State Library of Victoria
Australia
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