- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:55:19 -0800
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>, www-international@w3.org, public-html@w3.org
On Mar 10, 2010, at 6:36 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, CE Whitehead wrote: >>> >>> A use case we've discussed I believe is that of language learning >>> materials, where discussion is in one language but the target >>> language >>> is quite another language. This is one of the many cases where >>> multiple >>> languages need to be specified (another would be a document say in >>> Old >>> French with discussion in modern French targeting speakers of modern >>> French who can also read Old French)--I think we've mentioned a >>> number >>> of these here too in the past. >> >> Why do the languages _need_ to be specified? What does it do? > > My guess is that for those of us that speak several languages it > allows us to list them in preference order, hoping that whatever > language the page is available in will be selected based on this > preference order. That seems to be a good reason for a user to specify multiple languages in user preferences, for the browser to set in the Accept- Language header. It's not clear to me how this relates to the ability to declare that a document uses multiple languages via a <meta http- equiv> pragma. Regards, Maciej
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