Yiddish

Harald Tveit Alvestrand harald@alvestrand.no
Mon, 03 Jun 2002 18:39:34 +0200


what about having one set in iso-8859-1 and the other set in iso-8859-8?

language is NOT the only thing HTTP can negotiate on...

                 Harald

--On 30. mai 2002 16:41 -0600 "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org> wrote:

> So I've got some stuff in Yiddish that I want to serve across HTTP, and
> I'm probably going to have two versions -- one in Latin script, and one
> in Hebrew script.  I want to be able to do content-negotiation so that
> the user will get the version that she or he prefers.  How to do it?
>
> At the moment, I am considering to tag the Latin script one with the
> language tag "yi" and the Hebrew script one with the language tag
> "yi-il".  Yes, I am /perfectly/ aware that the country of Israel is not
> semantically synonymous with the concept of Hebrew script.  So I'm open
> to better suggestions.  Ideas, anyone?