[Bug 17865] New: i18n-ISSUE-119: provide example of language detection fallback

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17865

           Summary: i18n-ISSUE-119: provide example of language detection
                    fallback
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: other Hixie drafts (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: contributor@whatwg.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org


This was was cloned from bug 16979 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-05-07 18:08:00 +0000
Original reporter: Addison Phillips <addison@lab126.com>

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 #0   Addison Phillips                                2012-05-07 18:08:51 +0000 
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3.2.3.3 The lang and xml:lang attributes
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/elements.html#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes

For this much discussed paragraph:

--
If none of the node's ancestors, including the root element, have either
attribute set, but there is a pragma-set default language set, then that is the
language of the node. If there is no pragma-set default language set, then
language information from a higher-level protocol (such as HTTP), if any, must
be used as the final fallback language instead. In the absence of any such
language information, and in cases where the higher-level protocol reports
multiple languages, the language of the node is unknown, and the corresponding
language tag is the empty string.
--

Wouldn't an example be useful? I can imagine implementers not following what
the heck we're talking about.
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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2012-05-10 17:55:07 +0000 
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Any suggestions of a realistic example we could add here?
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Received on Wednesday, 18 July 2012 07:08:38 UTC