doctypes and different (spoken) languages

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doctypes and different (spoken) languages

e.g. Transitional//ES or Transitional//DE

jamie

8:27 am on Jul 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

hi,

i can't remember where i read this but i've always thought that different languages should be specified in the doctype declaration:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//ES"> (for spanish)

however firefox can't render the page properly when i use anything other than EN - have i got it wrong or is this a firefox bug?

thanks :)

bull

8:51 am on Jul 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

You do not specify the language in the DOCTYPE, use
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
for any language. However, specify it in the <html> tag as <html lang="de">, <html lang="es">, <html lang="it">.

See too [w3.org...]

jamie

9:46 am on Jul 20, 2004 (gmt 0)

thanks bull - have just updated everything

g1smd

10:05 pm on Jul 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

There is also the meta content-language tag, which also uses two-letter values from ISO 639 to define the language.