Swiss german, spoken

[Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com]

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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