Re: Proposal: Locale Preferences API

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.

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Received on Friday, 26 July 2013 13:30:16 UTC