Re: I18N in DocBook

[Andrew Smith <amsmith hempseed com>]

Mark Galassi <rosalia@cygnus.com> writes:

>     Christopher> How was the docbook instructions to set the language?
>     Christopher> (it's for a translation)
> 
> This is a stylesheet issue, isn't it?  With recent DocBook stylesheets 
> you should be able to use IT instead of EN as the language code, and
> it should work as long as the DSSSL stylesheets work with Italian.  I
> know they work with German, so you can try GE (or was it DE?) and see
> what to expect if IT works.

You should also probably use the DocBook LANG attribute.  It's valid
for most elements, but best used for the top-level element for your
document, eg <BOOK LANG="en">.  Also, if there is a section, phrase,
<PHRASE LANG="latin"/et cetera/ in another language, you can use the
LANG attribute for that.

The style sheet may be able to detect this and set the right
language/locale settings automatically.  I don't know if the standard
ones do this though.

    Andy

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