Swiss german, spoken
Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com
Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com
Mon Jun 13 22:23:55 CEST 2005
Will a MIME type help me distinguish between Arabic, Devangari, Latin,
Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese in the XML format? Can it be
used with the xml:lang attribute? That's where I need this data. There is
often a one-to-many relationship between the spoken language and its
written variants and these written variants must be described. Nothing I
do is intended for use in e-mail.
Karen Broome
Metadata Systems Designer
Sony Pictures Entertainment
310.244.4384
Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>
Sent by: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
06/13/2005 08:30 AM
To: Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk>, "'Michael Everson'"
<everson at evertype.com>, "'IETF Languages Discussion'"
<ietf-languages at iana.org>
cc:
Subject: RE: Swiss german, spoken
--On 12. juni 2005 00:19 +0100 Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk>
wrote:
> But for archival and retrieval processes we MAY wish to make a
> distinction. Remember, there are an awful lot of end users out there
> using 3066.
If you want to distinguish between an audio recording and a written text,
that's what the MIME type is for in IETF standards (and a variety of other
means in other contexts).
Overloading the language mechanism with this information is just another
means of causing pain.
My 5 cents.
Harald
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