[thelist] foreign languages

Thu Jul 3 01:38:16 CDT 2003

You could still use <span lang="fr">Mon Dieu!</span> to allow screen 
readers to pronounce 'Mon Dieu' in French and not in English

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 08:15 Europe/Brussels, Administrative HQ 
wrote:

> Hi.
>
> The way you have written this is correct. However, in
> the example you give, you really don't need it because
> you're only using characters which occur in English
> anyway. If you're using foreign characters, you need
> to specify.
>
> However, you may need to specify a non-English charset
> in a metatag. Most of these include English
> characters, so you can go a head and write your
> English text using that charset anyway.
>
> For example, use windows-1252 which includes Western
> European and English. Then just type away using
> entities for foreign characters.
>
> If you're using a language like Hebrew, use
> windows-1255 and specify THE ENGLISH as English and
> the Hebrew as Hebrew. You may need to use <DIR=> to
> change the direction rtl or ltr...or type one of them
> backwards.
>
> Good luck.
>
> David
>
>
> --- Stephen Rider <evolt_org at striderweb.com> wrote:
>> syntactically speaking, I know that we should be
>> marking lang="en" (or
>> whatever) in our <html> tag.
>>
>> What is the best way to mark a foreign phrase in the
>> middle of a page?
>> Should I use, for example:
>> <span lang="fr">Mon Dieu!</span> ?
>>
>> Is there a better way to structurally mark such a
>> thing?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steve
>>
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