Language-neutral fallback
Understand what unknown or intentionally neutral language does and does not establish.
Decide what the text is meant to follow
- Was neutral selected intentionally or produced by missing/unsupported paragraph language?
- Would correcting the paragraph language provide a more meaningful supported policy?
- Are the remaining findings language-independent evidence?
Interpret the example in context
A document with missing language attributes must not be assumed to follow a nearby regional convention.
The neutral model deliberately avoids locale-rule execution. This does not mean all language-independent inspection is disabled, and it does not certify quotations, dates or currencies. Correct the intended language source where appropriate, then run a fresh inspection and compare its provenance.
Inspect the current plugin model
These fields describe the built-in plugin defaults. Read Language & rules for the policy actually used in your inspection; a custom team profile can differ. The defaults are not a universal style guide and do not promise equal rule coverage. Expand a specific locale to compare its expectations.
Language-neutral und
Language-neutral
und- Quote pairs
- No locale quote pairs
- Numbers
- Flexible: review the intended convention
- Date order
- Flexible: confirm the source date
- Currency
- Flexible position; review context
- Short-word list
- No short-word list in this model
- Punctuation notes
- Use the rule’s actual contextual evidence
Use the language evidence deliberately
- Check paragraph-language attributes, intended publication convention and actual active policy.
- Inspect representative text and read the resolved language and coverage in the panel.
- Review complete quotations, numeric source values and relevant line boundaries before any edit.
- Apply intended policy changes and inspect again. Retain intentional source differences and obtain competent language review where needed.