[whatwg] Tag Proposal: spelling

[Kornel Lesiński]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 22:23:55 -0000, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com>  
wrote:

> For lack of a better solution, perhaps you can provide an extended  
> language tag:
>
> <div contenteditable lang="en-GB">
> <span aria-invalid="false" lang="en-GB-x-John-Grey">John Grey</span> saw  
> a...
> </div>
>
> The aria attribute could let the spelling software know the string is  
> not misspelled, and the lang attribute marks it as an English phrase,  
> helpful with transliteration.
>
> Does that work?

Transliteration in language code seems like a hack.

Instead of made-up language code, perhaps one of the special ISO 639 codes  
would be more appropriate?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-2#Special_situations

-- 
regards, Kornel Lesiński