- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:05:06 +0100 (MET)
- To: Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr (Chris Lilley)
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, misha.wolf@reuters.com, www-international@w3.org, unicode@unicode.org
Chris Lilley:
>
>On Feb 10, 6:24pm, Koen Holtman wrote:
>
>> Misha Wolf:
>> >What I want to raise is a very particular problem: Two of the browsers that
>> >handle Hebrew (maybe this should read "The two browsers that handle
>> >Hebrew"), recognise the old language code ("iw") but not the new one ("he").
>>
>> Why do these browsers need a language code at all? Can't they just rely on
>> the charset value?
>
>Only if there is (and has ever been) only one language which uses the
>Hebrew script. I suspect this is not the case.
Let me rephrase the question:
Why does these browsers need to know the language to render the script?
(Martin J. Duerst suggested text-to-speech conversion as one option. Does
that apply here?)
>Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ]
Koen.
Received on Monday, 10 February 1997 15:04:15 UTC