[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6872: Always set the language attribute on a WordPress site

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#6872: Always set the language attribute on a WordPress site
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 Reporter:  MarcoZ    |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  2.5.2    
Component:  Template  |     Version:  2.5.1    
 Severity:  normal    |    Keywords:           
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 On a standard WordPress installation that is not localized (e.g. $WPLANG
 is empty in wp-config.php), WordPress does not set a default lang and
 xml:lang attribute on the pages when it renders them. I come from Germany,
 and while my speech synthesizer used to read text to me is capable of
 speaking English, it does not switch to it automatically when I load my
 own or many other WordPress sites. If this lang attribute was set to en-us
 when there's no override, this would allow the speech synthesizer to
 switch automatically.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6872>
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