On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:31:36PM -0600, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote a message of 8 lines which said: > 1. to allow people to identify the language of content > 2. to allow people or computers to search for content in a particular language > 3. to allow people to specify "preferred languages" in which they > wish to receive content There are certainly other important reasons. For instance, to allow a graphical renderer or a spell checker or a speech synthetizer to apply the correct rules. Unlike 2 and 3 (where broad tagging is better), this requires fine-grain tagging. _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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