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Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] Language Support: Do we have what we need?
If support for CJK/CTL is enabled, you can configure all 3 languages in the character format dialog. Malte. Peter Korn wrote, On 02/21/07 17:38: > 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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