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Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Language Support: Do we have what we need?
Hi Malte, A related question: how does the user of an office app indicate which language should be used for any given span of text? Peter > 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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