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Wow, English-only people (or Western languages, for that matter) are so naïve. In case you didn't know, the lang attribute is very important in East Asian languages.

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#CJK #language #EastAsian

Table showing the characters 房, 港, 漢, 直, 角, 骨 in Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese scripts.
Thread discussion about the utility and implementation of the lang attribute in HTML, including various opinions on its importance and examples of its uses.
#language #eastasian #cjk
in reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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Serious question. How do platforms that accept user-generated content handle this?

Take Mastodon for example, if three users send a post, one in Chinese, one in Korean, one in Japanese, and the app is international, how would this be handled? How should this be handled?

Are apps targeting the Asian market rewquiring the user to correctly fill in the "language" field each time? Are you effectively required to include AI-based language detection in each product? Are browsers truly unable to figure this out on their own when there's no lang attribute present?

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洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee)
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@miki On the web, it's common to specify the lang attribute in the top-level <html> tag. Internationalized apps will prefer the user's locale setting.
@Mikołaj Hołysz
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Kevin Boyd
Kevin Boyd
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@miki maston lets users specify a default language & change the language on a per-post basis when they are composing posts.
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