[sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode

Hugo van der Kooij sword-devel@crosswire.org
Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:51:19 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:

> My suggestions is that we wrap any text needing a particular Unicode font
> with a span and give that span a class attribute that matches the language
> code. For example <span class="he"> for Hebrew. This will be more
> semantically rich and forward compatible. We can then specify the Unicode
> font in the CSS.

If my interpretation of the HTML specs are correctly we should use 
something like:

<span class="verse" lang=he">

See also:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-SPAN
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#idx-lang_attribute

Hugo.

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