Comments on: Languages in real-world ePubs

By: Marc Moskowitz

Marc Moskowitz — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:30:58 +0000

Are the “cs” books actually in Czech?

By: Liza Daly

Liza Daly — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:53:53 +0000

You should limit the language values to RFC 3066 for sure.

Bookworm doesn’t disallow invalid epubs, but it does require at least dc:title. To me that was a minimal standard of metadata; any less than that and I didn’t want to guarantee that we could render it.

By: Colin Hazlehurst

Colin Hazlehurst — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:12:59 +0000

Thanks for providing this information. I recently added a language dropdown list to opubWriter (http://opubwriter.com) so authors can select a language code for their new epub books. I wondered if I should limit the list to the languages I thought would be most used and I’m glad I didn’t.

It’s interesting that nearly half of the books in your study have no language code, yet the Open Packaging Format schema says there must be one-or-more of title, identifier, and language. In the rush to create epubs there’s clearly not much validation going on out there.

Colin Hazlehurst

By: stuart yeates

stuart yeates — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:18:06 +0000

It looks like we’re responsible for the bad “mi,ni” I’ll put it on the list of things to fix

cheers
stuart