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Bug 8151 - "If the resulting value is not a recognized language code, then it must be treated as an unknown language (as if the value was the empty string)." -- consider how this interacts with CSS :lang(), with passthrough/roundtripping, screen readers that recogni
Summary: "If the resulting value is not a recognized language code, then it must be tr...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-11-02 23:57 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:46 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-11-02 23:57:17 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-lang-and-xml:lang-attributes

Comment:
"If the resulting value is not a recognized language code, then it must be treated as an unknown language (as if the value was the empty string)." -- consider how this interacts with CSS :lang(), with passthrough/roundtripping, screen readers that recognise languages the UA doesn't, etc.

Posted from: 72.254.95.87
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-12-19 02:05:03 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: I considered it, and then added more text including some examples.
Comment 2 contributor 2009-12-19 02:05:29 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r4454.
Check-in comment: Clarify how to handle unknown language codes.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4453&to=4454