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Am 08.10.2005 um 13:30 schrieb Thomas Huriaux:
It does not answer my question. Sometimes, English requires quotes,
while
French requires italic. There is not a semantic tag for all the
situations where italic is required in French. To replace blindly <i>
by <q> is a wrong solution.
HTML tags are telling something about the content. How that is
rendered according to languages, is up to the browsers and correct
css implementation.
"Sometimes requires" cannot be solved by wrong tag usage. Can't you
give examples _what_ requires using language dependant italics or
underlining?
The quotes are a good example, I think. Quotes are quotes, but every
language uses its own rendering. But to solve that, no <i> and <u>
tags should be used. That would be going back to html 2.0, where
there was no solution for language dependent visual rendering. <i>
and <U> do not tell anything about the content - even not for
translators. But using <q> <cite> <a> and others do. Having content
depedent tags is one or the concepts of HTML and i18n.
What the part of l10n here is: not creating their own different pages
but look, if the visualisation of a quote or something else is
according to language rules. If browsers suck here, ther must be done
something using the css. But that does not replace bug reports for
the browsers.
Exactly that have been the reasons why I made the example page
yesterday immediately. I see the language concerns and I want to show
you how that can be done better than having different and for blind
people sometimes useless tags. You know that my own language German
is really very different from English here, too. And the British
people may have the same concerns for their version of English (which
can be solved, too, id the gb pages have lang en-gb or whatever.
greetings
Jutta
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