- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 20:19:42 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org (Carrasco Benitez Manuel)
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, tc46sc2@elot.gr, Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no
Carrasco Benitez Manuel: > [...] >For example: > > "This is a Greek to English transliteration using > the method foo" > >At present, RFC1766 does not allow this. > >The syntax and mechanism used is secondary, >i.e., it could be my proposal or a totally different >one (http://dragoman.org/winter/lanco.html). > >The reason to propose the extending of the >RFC1766 is because it looks like an easy way. >In particular, nothing has to be changed to >HTML, HTTP, etc. If you extend 1766 you will probably break the language tag matching rules in HTTP/1.1 and protocols based on it like TCN in rfc2295. So please use some other way of encoding this data. Introducing a new tag or field is better than breaking the semantics of an existing one. Koen.
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