- From: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:56:35 -0500
- To: <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: <www-international@w3.org>, <public-html@w3.org>, <ishida@w3.org>
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Hi, Ian: my reason for specifying multiple languages is that the content is split between the two and that to read it you need both languags to at least some degree; so for when search engines and such decide to pay attention to http it will be useful. Thanks. --C. E. Whitehead cewcathar@hotmail.com > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:33:26 +0000 > From: ian@hixie.ch > To: cewcathar@hotmail.com > CC: www-international@w3.org; public-html@w3.org > Subject: RE: ISSUE-88 / Re: what's the language of a document ? > > 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? > > > > So don't change the meta element inside the document at least (I have so > > many pages where I've listed several languages in that element). > > What benefit have you derived from listing those languages? > > To put it another way, what is the problem solved by specifying multiple > languages in the Content-Language <meta> pragma? > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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