Thanks Misha,
One reason why this is so confusing is that the link in the XML Spec to IANA
language identifiers takes you to IANA character sets:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-LanguageID
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#IANA
jane
> >But when I read through the XML spec it appears that you can have either the
> >2-letter language code or the IANA character set code - not both. Can you
> >confirm this and if its correct, why have they done this?
>
> You are confusing two quite different things:
>
> 1. Language. Each sentence, or word, or even character, of an XML
> document may have a different language, indicated using an xml:lang
> attribute, see:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-lang-tag
>
> 2. Character set encoding. An entire XML document must be encoded the
> same way. This is indicated using an encoding declaration, see:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#NT-EncodingDecl
> If the XML document is encoded using UTF-8 or UTF-16 then the
> encoding declaration may be omitted.
>
> >Is it possible to
> >define all three attributes using xml:lang
>
> No. See above.
>
> > or do we need to define a new
> >structure?
>
> No. See above.
>
> If you want more information, you may do any of the following:
>
> - Mail the W3C's public Internationalisation mailing list
> ([log in to unmask]).
>
> - If you are employed by a member of the W3C, join the W3C's
> Internationalisation Interest Group by mailing the W3C I18N IG
> Chair, Martin Dürst ([log in to unmask]).
>
> - If you are employed by a member of the W3C, join the W3C's
> Internationalisation Working Group by getting your W3C Advisory
> Committee representative to mail the W3C I18N WG Chair,
> Misha Wolf ([log in to unmask]).
>
> Misha
>
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