- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:27:25 PDT
- To: Iain.URQUHART@LUX.DG13.cec.be
- CC: www-international@w3.org
> Some of you might be interested in this :
>
> Accept-Language: en-EUROSPEAK
>
> Publication of Discussion Document, Luxembourg, July 1997
>
> ...
The header in your message is incorrect. "Content-Language", not
"Accept-Language", is used to describe the language of the content of a
message. (Accept-Language is a request header.)
However, I object to "EUROSPEAK" on two grounds. First, it is too kind.
It is quite possible to engage in speaking about Europe or from a
European perspective without also engaging in the particular linguistic
phenomena exhibited by the announcement in your message.
Content-Language: en-bureaucratese
might work if you thought a language tag were appropriate, but
bureaucreatese seems to be linguistically universal, and as such, you
should instead register a standard feature tag, following
draft-ietf-http-feature-reg-02.txt. I think it would require a long
interchange of messages exhibiting the feature itself before such a
registration would be complete, however, and perhaps even the
establishment of a mailing list devoted to the topic.
Regards,
Larry
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