- From: Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <rishab@dxm.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:59:25 -0800 (PST)
- To: mgunn@ucd.ie (Marion Gunn)
- Cc: iso10646@listproc.hcf.jhu.edu, keld@dkuug.dk, ietf-languages@uninett.no, ietf-types@uninett.no, www-international@www10.w3.org
Recently on www-international someone (Bert Bos) wondered why the LANG attribute, and also RFC1766, is limited to natural (human) languages. Well, adopting ISO-639-2 may change that - there's a 3-letter code "art" for "Artificial (Other)" languages. Am I right in assuming that this would apply to, say, Perl or C or pseudocode? "mul" for multiple and "unk" for unknown - Harald mentioned that but I couldn't find it in the on-line version of the DIS - could also have many uses once brought into RFC1766. I suppose it's better to use these "language" tags than work in the semantics at a higher level, although the prospect of treating "Unknown" as a language at the lowest level seems incongruous. Rishab First Monday - The Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet http://www.firstmonday.dk/ Munksgaard International Publishers, Copenhagen International Editor - Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (ghosh@firstmonday.dk) Mobile +91 11 98110 14574; Fax +91 11 2209608; Tel +91 11 2454717 A4/204 Ekta Apts., 9 Indraprastha Extn, New Delhi 110092 INDIA
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