Language question

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John Larronn

Hi there,

I am building a website which among others has three pages of text.

The first page is written in Dutch, the second page in English and the third
page in both Dutch and English.

Do I have to write at top of the first page lang=NL, on top of the second
page lang=EN-GB, and on the third page both lang=NL and lang=EN-GB?

Or should I do this in a different way?

Thanks very much indeed.

John
 
J

Jukka K. Korpela

John said:
The first page is written in Dutch, the second page in English and
the third page in both Dutch and English.

Do I have to write at top of the first page lang=NL, on top of the
second page lang=EN-GB, and on the third page both lang=NL and
lang=EN-GB?
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For most purposes, it really doesn't matter. Browsers generally ignore the
lang attribute, and search engines care even less - partly because lang
markup is so often plain wrong (e.g., lang="en" sput out by clueless
authoring software irrespectively of the language actually used).

You can only have one lang attribute per element, so if you want to use
language markup for the bilingual page, use <html lang="..."> according to
the main language and use lang="..." for any element in the other language.

Using lang="en" is usually better than lang="en-GB", since the few programs
that recognize language markup might understand the simpler form only. And
how often would it really matter to software which version of English you
are using?
 
J

John Larronn

Jukka K. Korpela said:
For most purposes, it really doesn't matter. Browsers generally ignore the
lang attribute, and search engines care even less - partly because lang
markup is so often plain wrong (e.g., lang="en" sput out by clueless
authoring software irrespectively of the language actually used).

You can only have one lang attribute per element, so if you want to use
language markup for the bilingual page, use <html lang="..."> according to
the main language and use lang="..." for any element in the other
language.

Using lang="en" is usually better than lang="en-GB", since the few
programs that recognize language markup might understand the simpler form
only. And how often would it really matter to software which version of
English you are using?
Click to expand...

Thanks very much for your quick reply, Yucca.!

A nice website you have got. I have put it in My Favourites.

Bye,

John
 

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