Jonathon Delacour
wrote a response to my entry about semantically marking up
foreign words in HTML (and why, when viewing that entry, certain browsers
kept asking users to install Japanese Language support). The comments on
that response spilled over to another entry
Jonathon wrote about the problem.
Reading the comments is interesting as there doesn't seem to be a real
consensus as towards The Right Thing to do, especially when using romanji
to write Japanese words. Do you use <SPAN> like I do?
Or is <I> with the LANG attribute correct?
What about <CITE>?
I think we're still quite a bit away from the semantic
web at this point.
Update on Saturday, September 23rd, 2023
I think the consensus, and what I'm doing now (and going back and fixing
previous posts like this one) is to use <I> with the
LANG attribute (and TITLE to provide the
translation).
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