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Meta We now have (basic) language support

As of the most recent deploy, users now have the ability to mark text as a certain language! Users can now add lang attributes to html. For example, this is inline Hebrew > This is <span la...

0 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Moshi‭

#1: Initial revision by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2020-11-13T21:41:44Z (about 4 years ago)
We now have (basic) language support
## As of the most recent deploy, users now have the ability to mark text as a certain language! 

Users can now add `lang` attributes to html. For example, this is inline Hebrew

```
> This is <span lang='he'>עִברִית</span> (Hebrew)!
```

> This is <span lang='he'>עִברִית</span> (Hebrew)!

and this is a quote in Japanese.

```
<blockquote lang='ja'>
日本語(にほんご、にっぽんご[注 1])は、主に日本国内や日本人同士の間で使用されている言語である。
</blockquote>

from [Japanese Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本語)
```

><blockquote lang='ja'>
>日本語(にほんご、にっぽんご[注 1])は、主に日本国内や日本人同士の間で使用されている言語である。
></blockquote>
>
>from [Japanese Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本語)

Unfortunately, this language tagging is only available by using html. Our Markdown implementation does not have the ability to set the language attribute.

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## What changes?

There won't be many visible changes for the time being; however, this paves the way for us to finally typeset text differently depending on the language. No more ugly text![^1][^2]


[^1]: Ugly is subjective
[^2]: We haven't actually *done* the different typesetting yet