- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:24:53 +0100
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 07:28 PM 7/23/01 -0700, pat hayes wrote: >>Another possible disadvantage?: not all literals are in some >>language. It doesn't really make sense to specify a language for, say, a >>decimal number or a MIME type string. > >Why not say that the language for those things is RDF? Because the definition of xml:lang (which is the defined syntax whose meaning we are trying to capture) is that the language code used is as defined by RFC 1766, now obsoleted by RFC 3066, which says: [[[ 2.4 Meaning of the language tag The language tag always defines a language as spoken (or written, signed or otherwise signaled) by human beings for communication of information to other human beings. Computer languages such as programming languages are explicitly excluded. There is no guaranteed relationship between languages whose tags begin with the same series of subtags; specifically, they are NOT guaranteed to be mutually intelligible, although it will sometimes be the case that they are. ]]] #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne Baltimore Technologies Strategic Research Content Security Group <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com> <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <http://www.baltimore.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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