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

[Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@Sun.COM>]

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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