From 76ec19ef1de6bc9d051db3d7bf135d84c0fff692 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:16:17 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix language definition on body tag being ignored during
 conversion

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py
index a095018c1a..61029741a4 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py
@@ -421,12 +421,6 @@ def parse_html(data, log=None, decoder=None, preprocessor=None,
     for x in r:
         x.tag = XHTML('span')
 
-    # Remove lang redefinition inserted by the amazing Microsoft Word!
-    body = xpath(data, '/h:html/h:body')[0]
-    for key in list(body.attrib.keys()):
-        if key == 'lang' or key.endswith('}lang'):
-            body.attrib.pop(key)
-
     def remove_elem(a):
         p = a.getparent()
         idx = p.index(a) -1