Destination language (was: RE: minutes from today (team b))

> Should we evalutate also the text-processing language for destination
> link / and or suggest a technique (using of hreflang? Is it supported?)

This is almost useless, since the language of a reference might per se be
unclear and/or contain "several languages" (due to content negotiation, for
example), and might always change without notice, of course. Due to the high
probability of wrong declarations I consider it unnecessary and harmful
work.

We should nonetheless encourage the use of "lang"/"xml:lang" for
translations, for example:

  <link rel="alternate" href="http://example.org/de/" title="Deutsch" 
    xml:lang="de" />


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Jens Meiert
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Received on Friday, 16 September 2005 10:38:08 UTC