- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:27:15 +0100
- To: ltru@lists.ietf.org, www-international@w3.org
Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Tagging source code snippets as "zxx" would be barbaric.
Source code snippets often do contain no linguistic data.
However the following is in English:
alert("This is English");//This comment is English too.
> Doug argued that "" is a placeholder, I think it's not in XML, it has
> a clear effect of breaking any inherited xml:lang, resetting anything
> interested in language tags (CSS, spell checkers, Web crawlers, etc.)
> to their default "no language specified" behaviour.
Agreed.
> It's IMO perfectly okay to have very different styles for "i-default",
> "und", "zxx", "art", "mul", etc. With "" meaning "none of those".
I still don't buy that "" != "und".
If "" != "und" then the RFC is buggy, since it clearly requires that the
latter not be used if a protocol permits the former - a decision which
only makes sense if they are equivalent.
Received on Friday, 13 April 2007 13:28:32 UTC