Re: language information in http://www.gnome.org/i18n/

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

sön 2002-08-18 klockan 18.54 skrev Roozbeh Pournader:
> I was wondering why the local language names in the page:
> 
>    http://www.gnome.org/i18n/
> 
> don't have HTML language names specified. Something like:
> 
>    fi: Finnish (<span lang="fi">Suomea</span>)
> 
> for Finnish. This is useful for both browsers (they can use a Japanese
> font for Japanese text, and a Chinese font for a Chinese text)  and search
> engines (or any other automatic script that can make language information
> to good use). See <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/dirlang.html> for
> information on the 'lang' attribute.
> 
> It should be very easy to do, I just don't know the WML way of doing
> things, and if 'xml:lang' may be preferred, for example.

I think this is an excellent idea, but I don't know much about the WML
stuff either.

You should probably bring it up with webmaster@gnome.org or
gnome-web-list@gnome.org. Or perhaps (maybe the best option) put it in
bugzilla against the "website" component, and perhaps someone
knowledgeable about this will have a look at it.


Christian