- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:32:41 +0100
- To: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Gunnar Bittersmann, Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:03:42 +0100: > Leif Halvard Silli scripsit: >>>> then I would tag the entire registry with lang="en" (<html lang="en">), >>> >>> That’s fine because the keywords (“Type”, “Subtag”, “Description >>> ”, “Added”) and some values (“language”, language description) >>> are in English. Non-English descriptions should be tagged as such. >> >> So I thought to. But to to the degree that it is aimed at machine >> consumption, it could make sense to choose 'zxx' instead, perhaps. > > Is it? I frequently look up at > http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry (with deep > apologies to Richard for not using his tool > http://rishida.net/utils/subtags/index.php ;-)) > > So might a user whose screenreader might use the information that > keywords and values are in English. Most computer languages are in English ... The best they could do for a plain text document, would be to send a Content-Language: en; HTTP header ... -- Leif Halvard Silli
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