[uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

Fri Oct 20 01:52:46 PDT 2006

Cool, thanks.

>> <html lang="en-gb">

Question: how would someone implement a wiki with different pages in different languages since they don't have access to changing the header or <HTML> element for each wiki page?

-Mike

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From: microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org [mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Ciaran McNulty
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 4:34 AM
To: Microformats Discuss
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] First version of Currency proposal

On 10/20/06, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Question: How does a human currently interpret a website that is have 
> values such as $1,000 when it it was designed by a US company with US 
> customers in mind? Is there something in the HTTP headers that makes 
> this explicit that a machine could read, or does the Argentine viewing 
> the web page just have to figure it out in context?  If not, then we'd 
> need a page-global currency seperator too...

The @lang attribute specifies an ISO639[1] or ISO3166[2] country code for the element it's applied to (and any descendant elements.

The W3C recommend[3] that the HTML element have this for every page.

You could easily, for instance have:

<html lang="en-gb">
[...]
<p>This product is $1,000 (<span lang="fr-pr">1.500€</span>)</p> [...] </html>

And hopefully a user agent would know how to parse the numbers.  @lang also has benefits for things like screen readers and so on.

-Ciaran McNulty

  [1] http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt
  [2] http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso3166.txt
  [3] http://www.w3.org/International/O-HTML-tags.html
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