- From: Carrasco Benitez Manuel <manuel.carrasco@emea.eudra.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:23:07 +0100
- To: "'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'" <Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no>, www-international@w3.org, tc46sc2@elot.gr
>>In RFC 1766, the first characters does not seems to denote a
>>language or family of languages. Namely
>>
>> i- for IANA
>> x- for experimental
>>
>what I don't like about t-el-latin is that it loses the basic
>information that this is in fact Greek; it won't match an
>"accept-language: el".
>
>i- and x- are "escape hatches".
The two options would look like:
1) Extending RFC-1766
el-tran-foo
2) Attribute TRAN
<SPAN LANG=el TRAN=foo>
The string "tran", for language transformation
could another one.
A register of schemes will be needed
(I am looking into this).
Regards
Tomas
Received on Friday, 23 October 1998 09:23:51 UTC