Re: Selecting Languages

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From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
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>   The documents (on the web) will be written in many languages. I
> think selecting an appropriate language is a very important issue.

There was similar proposal in ietf-822 ML on MIME.

>   We are now testing "selecting languages" by the "Accept-Language"
> with http server. I think It can be performed by using mime-type, too.

The proposal used "Content-Language:" header.

>   Suppose a person want to read all information in English.  If
> default of that pages is written in Japanese, he needs to search
> anchors to the English pages or English version of that pages ( or
> learn reading Japanese :-)).
>   Furthermore, I think auto-switching is crucial for autopilot type
> clients(e.g., knowbot).

The problem is how to express language.

There is ISO 639 two letter langage code (not contry code) but it does
not contain a lot of languages.

So, whether it should be extended or not and how can it be extended
is, I think, the largest issue.

Do you want to distinguish Queen's and American English?

						Masataka Ohta