The "not-language" identifier (was: RE: Mandarin Chinese, Simplified Script)

[Michael Everson]

At 14:15 -0400 2005-06-16, John.Cowan wrote:
>Caoimhin O Donnaile scripsit:
>
>>  But according to section 2.12 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ at least,
>>  (1) doesn't mean that there is or there isn't a language.  It just
>>  unsets xml:lang
>
>Quite right.  The way to say "This is linguistic content, but we don't know
>what it is" is "und".

That is different from "this is content which isn't linguistic".
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