[Clipart] Text labels in SVGs

[Brianna Laugher]

Hello,

A technical question for SVG experts. :)
It is possible to use text labels in SVGs especially in maps and
diagrams. see e.g.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:African_language_families.svg
.
Is there some formalised way of representing multiple languages within
the same file?

At the moment on Wikimedia each time someone translates the labels on
an SVG, they upload a separate file. I am wondering whether it would
be preferable to be able to store all the labels within a single SVG,
maybe have a default that shows up and the others are invisible, and
then later reference them like

[[image:foo.svg|language=en]]

Does SVG have any kind of protocol or whatever around how language
text should be represented?

thanks,
Brianna

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