- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:31:10 PST
- To: Ed_Batutis/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com
- CC: www-international@w3.org
\Ed_Batutis/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com wrote: > > We've found that it is useful to have a language tag for the whole document > that means, for example, > > "This document is meant for French-Canadian users" > > The document, however, might not contain a word of French, but it simply > contains information that French-Canadian users need to see. In addition to > that, blocks of text can be tagged separately with the actual language they > are written in. > Aaaahhhhrrrgh. Use PICS if you want content rating. The language tag is not arbitrary meta-data about the ethnicity of the recipient, but specific technical information about the content itself that is intended for localization, choice of punctuation, presentation, hyphenation, etc. See http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/PICS/ for more information about PICS. Larry
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