Re: [office-accessibility] Language Support: Do we have what we need?

[Malte Timmermann <Malte.Timmermann@Sun.COM>]

Everything should be there.

You can specify the overall language for the doc, and for different text
portions.

There is one tricky thing: One text portion can have 3(!) languages
assigned.
One in case the text is LATIN, one for CJK and one for CTL.
The actual text can be identified as LATIN/CJK/CTL via the character
codes that are used, then you lookup the language.

And a little bit harder for the user agent: The user could assign
LATIN/CJK/CTL language attributes the the paragraph, but mix
LATIN/CJK/CTL words. ODF will not give you the different portions,
that's up to you to figure out.

Malte.

Janina Sajka wrote, On 02/21/07 16:57:
> Does anyone know off hand whether the ODF spec supports language
> tagging. I should think we want explicit meta tags for the document
> language, but also in line language specification to support
> multi-lingual documents. It's an a11y issue if ODF is relying on UTF
> gliphs for this information.
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