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Re: Language label

From: M.T. Carrasco Benitez <carrasco@innet.lu>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 21:03:49 +0100 (MET)
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
cc: Ed_Batutis/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com, www-international@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970226210250.11072I-100000@localhost> 
> Aaaahhhhrrrgh.
> 
> Use PICS if you want content rating. The language tag is not arbitrary
> meta-data about the ethnicity of the recipient, but specific technical 
> information about the content itself that is intended for localization,
> choice of punctuation, presentation, hyphenation, etc.
> 

I strongly agree.

Tomas
Received on Wednesday, 26 February 1997 15:02:50 GMT

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