- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:13:35 -0500
- To: David Clarke <w3c@dragonthoughts.co.uk>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
David Clarke scripsit:
> Consider a parallel text, such as the www.dvla.gov.uk (which is dual
> English/Welsh)
Such a page plainly has no primary language. If a local policy
says that all pages must be tagged with one, the ISO 639-2 and RFC 3066
tag "mul" is available.
> If I were a linguist that produced a page which was correct in both
> Australian English and British English, but not American English, how
> should it be specified?
According to whatever is most reasonable and useful. I know this is a
shovelling answer, but I can hardly see anything better.
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