Swiss german, spoken

[Peter Constable]

> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of 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?

MIME types do not distinguish between languages; they distinguish
between file types, such as plain text versus HTML versus MP3, etc. MIME
types can be used to determine that the representation modality is text
versus audio or video.



Peter Constable