- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:35:37 -0400
- To: Stephen Deach <sdeach@adobe.com>
- Cc: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, www-international@w3.org
Stephen Deach scripsit: > What is the processing-side difference between "zxx" (no linguistic > content) and "art" (artificial)? Semantically, "art" refers to artificial human languages such as Esperanto (which has its own code), Loglan, or Toki Pona. Processing any language tag depends on the purpose of processing: if a text is tagged "art", and your program has heuristics for telling one such language from another, you might want to apply them; no such heuristics make sense for "zxx". Most programs can only act on a tiny subset of the available language tags in any event: to the great bulk of all software, "sco" and "nds" are as opaque as "art" or "zxx". -- Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never John Cowan see a more wretched hive of scum and cowan@ccil.org villainy -- unless you watch the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Jerry Springer Show. --georgettesworld.com
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