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                Just how do you markup foreign words in HTML?

Jonathon Delacour [1] wrote a response [2] to my entry about semantically
marking up foreign words [3] in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) (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 [4] 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 [5] at this point.

Update on Saturday, September 23^rd, 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).


[1] http://weblog.delacour.net/
[2] http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/000832.html
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/01/19.1
[4] http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/000833.html
[5] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=semantic+web&btnG=Google+Search

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