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Note: This topic has been migrated to https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-spec/issues/53#issuecomment-247896584

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As with HTML's lang/xml:lang properties, it would be useful to indicate the content language of a particular field in a standard manner. This might be used for proper font display (as in CJK languages) or for selectively showing content to users based on their locale.

I think a name "contentLang" for the property would avoid confusion at (falsely) thinking that this was necessarily indicating the language of the "title" or "description" itself.