- From: André (小山) Schappo <A.Schappo@lboro.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:29:34 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org
There is significant difference between browsers in the set of language tags available for user selection. It would be of benefit if there were an agreed set of language tags that were incorporated into all browsers. Perhaps some sort of registration system similar to <http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry > except for fully formed language tags instead of subtags. This would pave the way for interesting applications of language tags in browsers. eg Take a youtube like site (lets call it signtube) that also has a signed language version of a video that is shown in parallel. Now take the language subtag: Type: language Subtag: sgn Description: Sign Languages Different regions have different sign languages. Then register the language tags sgn-GB (British Sign Language) sgn-JP (Japanese Sign Language) sgn-CN (Chinese Sign Language) ...etc... Then, for example, if I had my browser set to sgn-JP I would see the video on signtube signed in Japanese Sign Language. André Schappo http://国际化域名.lboro.ac.uk/
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