Re: no xml:lang = Weak I18N for entry

[Walter Underwood <wunder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Friday, June 11, 2004 7:07 PM -0400 Karl Dubost <karl@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's still no resolution for the entry language.
> 
> Maciej has developped a lot of good arguments [1] in favor of it.
> 
> Many Weblogs are multilingual or an aggregation of languages. It's 
> absolutely necessary to have the possibility to tag the language at
> the  entry level (in fact I would say almost at all levels but that's 
> another debate.

Multiple languages per document can be tricky. The search engines
that I have worked on pick a single language per document. If a
feed is treated as a single document, supporting per-entry xml:lang
will require some interesting changes.

Still, I could support xml:lang for each entry. I think it is 
less useful to have separate languages at a lower level, like
for title and summary. Possible, yes, but rarely useful.

I would like Atom to specify the default language when there is
no xml:lang tag. If we don't spec that, then we force language-ID
on every client that is language-sensitive. That is expensive and
error-prone.

wunder
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Walter Underwood
Principal Architect, Verity