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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jul 30, 2012 10:25AM

2012-07-30 17:11, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:

> In a non-English speaking country/website, adding the lang element to
> the header is all important for screen readers,

Please provide information about screen readers that actually pay
attention to lang attributes (they are attributes, not elements). As far
as I know, such behavior is very limited, but things may have changed.

I don't think the issue has anything to do with meta elements or with
the previous topic of the discussion, which was:

>>> How can omitting the character set be conforming?

Yucca