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Re: Altavista "Language Tags"?

From: Bert Bos <bbos@mygale.inria.fr>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 18:59:20 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-Id: <199705071659.SAA11759@mygale.inria.fr>
To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org 
Tim Bray writes:
 > Check out the following, from PC Week.  Altavista says they're going
 > to introduce "Language Tags" - the story is completely opaque.  Anyone
 > here from DEC or AV who can shed some light on this?
 > 
 > http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0505/07aalta.html

Let's hope they are referring to the new language *attributes* of HTML
and the Content-Language header of HTTP. See:

    http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/International/O-help-lang.html


Bert
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