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Re: Language label

From: M.T. Carrasco Benitez <carrasco@innet.lu>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 09:14:53 +0100 (MET)
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
cc: Drazen Kacar <Drazen.Kacar@public.srce.hr>, Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>, www-international@w3.org, unicode@unicode.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970228083751.2219A-100000@localhost> 
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Larry Masinter wrote:
> 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>.

It is not necessary for GET but it is necessary for HEAD.  This could be
use by the robots and perhaps others applications.  So probably the best
is if the content-language is always in the header.

Tomas
Received on Friday, 28 February 1997 03:13:28 GMT

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