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

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

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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