Language tags
Gerrit Sangel <[email protected]>
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Hello list, I have a question concerning language tags. In (X)HTML, you can specify the language for a specific paragraph or word via the lang attribute of XML, e.g. <p xml:lang="de" lang="de">Guten Morgen</p> This is almost really necessary for Han characters, which were unified in Unicode. Characters, which look different in China or Japan have the same codepoint but have a different appearance controlled via the xml:lang attribute. In (X)HTML, the Browser will then choose an appropriate font for the characters. I wonder if this is also possible in Jabber? Because Jabber is an XML protocol, I think it should be generally possible to include the language tag in a message? Maybe just like <body xml:lang="ja"> and so on. I tried this, but my client did not change anything (ok, I’m using Kopete, maybe it doesn’t support this). But this would then change the language for the entire message, I’d need to change the language for specific words. I sometimes have the problem, that I am chatting with someone about Chinese and Japanese characters, but we can’t say „This is the way it looks in Chinese and that way in Japanese“, because the application uses the same font for all characters. Also, if I chat with a Japanese person, I would like to see a Japanese font, but when I’m chatting with a Chinese, I would like a Chinese font. Is this maybe possible? Kopete doesn’t seem to have this feature. Does anyone know of a Jabber client which would support this (given that the Jabber protocol supports this)? Thanks Gerrit Sangel _______________________________________________ This is JUser -- a mailing list for end users of Jabber clients. To unsubscribe, go to the following web page, scroll all the way down, and type in your email address: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/juser _______________________________________________