Description of lang
incorrect
#1082
Labels
i18n-needs-resolution
Issue the Internationalization Group has raised and looks for a response on.
lang
incorrect
#1082
lang
memberhttps://w3c.github.io/manifest/#lang-member
The above description of the
lang
member should not refer to the "primary language", since that has specific meaning in a language tag. It should just say "language".The parenthetical as knowing the language can also help with directionality is not correct. Language metadata is used for many things--font selection, spelling correction, hyphenation, styling, and so forth. Voice selection for accessibility is another key use. However, while the language can sometimes be used to help estimate the direction, this is not recommended and, given the use of
dir
and its default ofauto
in this specification, should not even be mentioned (as thelang
MUST NOT be used to estimate the direction when there is metadata provided). Instead this section should mention the other Good Things that language metadata can provide.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: