Re: For review: Tagging text with no language

Mark Davis scripsit:

> Your conclusion from 639-2 I find extremely odd, since "zxx" is ALSO
> in a column that says "English name of language", so by your logic,
> "zxx" is also a language, just one with no linguistic content.

Bah.  I'll go no further with this.  My basic point remains:
whatever "und" means, "" can't mean "language is unknown", since it's
equally suitable for non-linguistic content.  XSLT documents don't
have xml:lang attributes, but if they did, "" would be a sensible value.

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Received on Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:39:24 UTC