Re: 2 many language tags for Norwegian

John Cowan 2008-04-28 07.17:
> Leif Halvard Silli scripsit:
>
> > Just so it is noted: If a Norwegian user finds a book that is tagged as 
> > "Norwegian", then the user can only guess what it means. No Norwegian 
> > user will think that such a book has to be Bokmål, for instance.
>
> Understood.  But isn't it more *likely* to be so, just because there
> are more Bokmål books overall?
>   

If you are only asking about what the probability about the book being 
Bokmål, then of course.

> > And if that was the case: Why not allow two language tags for Norwegian 
> > documents as well?
>
> There is no problem in principle with assigning a document more than one
> tag -- it's just that nobody does it.
>   

HTML 4 says that "Whitespace is not allowed within the language-code." 
Doesn't that contract your statment? Or was it not meant to talk about HTML?

Else, how do I assign the same file to two different languages in Apache?
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Monday, 28 April 2008 05:52:19 UTC