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Natural Language Declaration, edge cases

Request Title  Natural Language
Request Submitted By  Joe Clark
Executive Summary Declaration of Natural Language
Rationale Required for accessibility purposes in several cases.
Use Case(s) Documents without a natural language. whose language is unknown to the creator.  Documents containing multiple languages.
Detail of Proposed Changes  To be adapted from the content below.

Section 6.11 (Text), New Content  (DJ to check, update)

Currently, the text reads:

Natural language shall be declared as discussed in ISO 32000-2, Section 14.9.2 and/or as described in ISO 32000-2, Section 7.9.2.

  • Documents not expressed in a natural language shall declare the root language as zxx.
  • Documents expressed in a language unknown to the author or creator shall declare the root language as und.
  • Documents with equal proportions of multiple languages shall declare the root language as mul and use structure elements