[sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode

[Don A. Elbourne Jr.]

Hugo,

I agree. Ideally we would use the lang attribute. however, if I understand
correctly, browser support is very limited for it. Using a class in the
meantime seems to be the preferred practice.

by grace alone,

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugo van der Kooij" <hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode


> 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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