The purpose of the language identification in warning strings is not for allowing the recipient to choose the appropriate one, but rather merely to allow it to interpret the string correctly, if the display action might involve, for example, reading the string out loud. > > I'd suggest permitting the extensions specified by > > RFC2231 (which updates RFC2047) to be used to provide > > explicit language tagging of quoted strings. There is no harm in updating the reference, but there's should be no presumption that language tags are necessarily any more useful for selection among appropriate warnings. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinterReceived on Wednesday, 18 November 1998 06:10:07 EST
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