[thelist] please review

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 6 10:29:15 CDT 2001


> From: <martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com>
> 
> It's only standard if your language is US English.

correct, but i assumed it was a US site, which is why i said 'en-
us'... but i didn't mean US english was a standard, but that 'en-us' 
is a standard way of describing the language for US english... dig?

> As this is a Dutch company, why would that be the case?
> Particularly as the site has UK English spellings throughout.

in which case it would be 'en-gn' (i think)... either way, read up on 
the standards and choose a standard abbreviation for the language, 
no matter what it is...

> Plain ol' "en" should do the trick. Or "en-gb".

i believe if you read through both W3C specs and the WAI 
guidelines, they'll push you toward something more specific than 
'en'... at least that's why i use 'en-us' over 'en'...

> Will the site also be in Dutch, Mike?
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> your
> language should be set in the standard 'en-us'...





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