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Re: Language label

From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:03:25 PST
Message-ID: <33163CED.74DE@parc.xerox.com>
To: "M.T. Carrasco Benitez" <carrasco@innet.lu>
CC: Drazen Kacar <Drazen.Kacar@public.srce.hr>, Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>, www-international@w3.org, unicode@unicode.org 
I do not believe that it is necessary to label content with
a content-language header if the content self-identifies its
language with <HTML LANG=xx> or <BODY LANG=xx>.

The "charset" information is NECESSARY to interpret the
body (of text/* types) and thus MUST appear in the header.
Received on Thursday, 27 February 1997 21:04:09 GMT

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