- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:29:48 -0400
- To: Albert Lunde <atlunde@panix.com>
- Cc: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, Andrew Cunningham <acunningham@slv.vic.gov.au>, www-international@w3.org
Albert Lunde scripsit: > In the context of HTML and HTTP the BCP47 tags really do identify > languages. Language varieties, more precisely. > For the purpose of HTML, Unicode for CJK characters is ambiguous > without language identification. This was discussed in the era of > the HTML 2.0 spec. Not ambiguous, but perhaps difficult to read in the same sense that some fonts are difficult to read. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos --Lithuanian proverb Deus dedit dentes; deus dabit panem --Latin version thereof Deity donated dentition; deity'll donate doughnuts --English version by Muke Tever God gave gums; God'll give granary --Version by Mat McVeagh
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