- From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:35:09 -0700
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, httpbis <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 02.11.2010 05:52, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote: >>> >>> Also, we should remove the language tagging facility >>> because it is gratuitous. >> >> I also agree with this. There is currently no OS or any related facility >> that 'knows' in any way in what language its filenames are. There is >> also no way for a user to enter that information, in the interfaces I >> know. There is also no practice of language negotiation for filenames >> (there is language negotiation for different language versions of >> content, where as a result the filenames may also be different, but >> that's a different thing). > > I made this <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/264>: > > Proposal: > > 1) At the end of 3.1, add: > > "Note: the format used for ext-value allows specifying a natural language; > this is of limited use for filenames and is likely to be ignored by > recipients." > > 2) In Section 4, language tagging is used in one example; modify the example > not to use it. That seems like a local improvement. We should engage with jungshik to get his perspective on this issue. Adam
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