What to do if "webpage is missing meta language information"?

Question

A webmaster-tools utility complains that my page is missing meta language information.

What should I do if my page contains mixture of text in multiple languages (all Western European languages)?

Answer 1

Most “webmaster-tools” complaints are best ignored (or not read at all). To get help with specific messages, please identify the tool, the message, and your URL.

A mixture of languages is a problem in itself, and best avoided by putting different language versions into different pages. If you need a mix of languages, use the lang attribute to specify the language of each part.

There is very little useful that you can do with meta tags, regarding a mixture of languages.

Answer 2

Have you looked at Multi-regional and multilingual sites article? It provides some good suggestions.