Re: Label header i18n, and RFC 2277

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 09:24:19AM -0700, Jim Whitehead wrote:
>...
> To resolve this issue, DeltaV needs to either:
> 
> (a) Develop a plausible explanation for why label information is not human
> readable text.
> 
> (b) Explain why label text, unlike all other human readable text, does not
> require language tagging.
> 
> (c) Add a language tag to the label.
> 
> In my opinion, choices (a) and (b) are high-risk, since they have a higher
> probability of causing the DeltaV draft to be sent back to the working group
> to resolve the i18n issues associated with labels.  Choice (c) is low-risk,
> since it meets the letter and spirit of RFC 2277.

Fair enough.

Rather than nuke the header, I propose that we take advantage of the
standard format for headers:

  Label: name; language="en-us"

Note that RFC 2616, S3.10 talks about how to specify a language value.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

Received on Monday, 16 April 2001 17:30:05 UTC