Re: Language tags
Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>
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Gerrit Sangel wrote: > 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? Hmm, I see that we don't recommend this in XHTML-IM at the level of the <p/> or <span/> element: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0071.html#profile-attributes-common Do you want to send the same message <body/> in different languages, or include different languages in the same <body/>? > 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. Yes, you can send multiple versions of the same message with different xml:lang values. > 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. We don't support that yet. > 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. You can do it with separate messages, but not in the same message. At least not yet. And by "can" I mean that it is supported in the protocol, not necessarily in all clients. > 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)? See above. Peter _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________
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