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Comment LC-1379: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> on behalf of I18N WG; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Comment from the i18n review of:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20060427/

Comment 7
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0606-understanding-wcag2/
Editorial/substantive: E
Owner: RI

Location in reviewed document:
3.1.3 Idioms

Comment:
The markup for the Dutch example says:

<span lang="nl-NL">Hij ging met de kippen op stok</span>

We recommend that you remove the -NL unless you really want to make the point that this is an idiom specific to the Netherlands. In general, language values should be kept as short as possible.

On the other hand, since the W3C uses American English spelling, you may want to change the lang attributes in the html element to "en-US" - which will help for spell-checking, and possibly also for voice browsers?; Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMB] LGR sent email to Yvette to find out whether or not this idiom is unique to the Netherlands. Discussed at the 27 July 2006 telecon: resolution: accept LC-1379 as amended http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2006/07/27-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} DONE Change lang="nl-NL" to lang="nl" in the 3.1.3 example, and change lang="en" to lang="en-US" on all the html elements in all our documents. Internal WD updated 25 August. Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jun/0015.html; Resolution: Thanks for catching these. We have made the changes.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)